Journal for the History of Astronomy was founded in 1970 and is the only journal devoted to the history of astronomy from earliest times to the present, and to history in the service of astronomy. Its ...

Claude-Louis Mathieu, born in Macon, France, in 1783, demonstrated an early aptitude for mathematics, overcoming familial and financial obstacles to graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1805. His ...

Astronomy, the oldest of natural sciences, has changed often throughout history depending on general knowledge, geographical region and culture. The earliest practitioners of astronomy were early ...

More than a thousand years before the first telescopes, Babylonian astronomers tracked the motion of planets across the night sky using simple arithmetic. But a newly translated text reveals that ...

With this issue, Astronomy celebrates its 50th anniversary. I bought the first issue of the magazine from a newsstand in Columbus, Ohio. While the stories eventually drew my interest, I was more ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful evidence of dark matter. Her groundbreaking work revealed that most of the ...

Near the small town of Herstmonceux in the English county of East Sussex sits the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The Royal Observatory Greenwich was first built in Greenwich, London, ...

Astronomical clues could pinpoint the day Claude Monet painted "Impression, Soleil Levant (Impression, Sunrise)," the art piece that lent its name to the Impressionist art movement. Based on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. This article is more than 5 years old. A photo from the HPWREN cameras ...