About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

It is Lent in the Christian world, but in reality, it only alters the lives of monks and Moscow restaurateurs, who rush to invent Lenten menus to profit from the public's fear of living in sin.

NASA's astronomical model, dating back to the 1990s, has reignited discussions about the cosmic events surrounding Jesus ...

Long before telescopes and satellites, beneath the sweeping skies of southern England, ancient people gathered enormous ...

“Christian texts mention that the moon turned to blood after Jesus’s crucifixion — potentially referring to a lunar eclipse, ...

Easter 2025 will be celebrated on April 20, but the date isn’t fixed. It is determined using a centuries-old formula tied to ...

So, what exactly is Easter all about? Where did it come from, and how has it stayed so meaningful through the centuries? From ...

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not.

Several years ago, CT scans suggested that the 2,000-year-old device was an astronomical tool ... These include giving the ...

The date of Easter changes each year and is determined by the lunar calendar. Passover and Easter are both religious ... that commemorates the Israelites’ emancipation from slavery in ancient Egypt.

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar ...