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Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip mania of the 17th ...

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All 88 internationally recognised constellations have European origins. But First Nations astronomy tells older, beautiful ...

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The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

Originally published in England under the title The Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology. Statement of responsibility from jacket. Prehistory -- Ancient Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Greek and ...