Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have recently found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed by the Greek astronomer ...

The star catalog was made by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 162 and 127 BCE, 1,400 years before the telescope. By Laura Baisas Published Oct 20, 2022 1:00 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Fragments of one of the first-ever star catalogues—created ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scholars discovered the oldest known star map beneath the text of a Christian manuscript, according to new study. The long-lost ...

The mathematical principles of Ptolemy’s Planisphaerium enabled the projection of the three-dimensional universe onto a flat ...

Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries later. A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that the ...

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park on Wednesday morning, researchers focused a powerful X-ray machine on pages of parchment from a medieval desert monastery, looking to reveal ...

The Greek astronomer Hipparchus is often called the “father of astronomy.” He’s credited with discovering the Earth’s precession (how it wobbles on its axis) and calculating the motions of the Sun and ...

Researchers believe they may have found a fragment of a long-lost star map compiled by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who made the earliest known attempt to chart the entire night sky. In a ...