Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

This is the story of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, an attraction of Athens that was once among the largest temples of the ...

Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, one of the cradle of civilizations and the birthplace of the first writing system. In the ...

Atop a lonely butte near Florence, AZ lies a tomb shaped like a pyramid. It marks the grave of Charles D. Poston, Arizona’s ...

Discover why Earth's farthest distance from the sun coincides with summer heat, then grab your binoculars for a week of ...

From Stone Age astronomy to Viking law and Roman goddesses, cultures across time have honored the longest day of the year ...

The Air India flight was carrying 242 people when it crashed into a medical college hostel moments after taking off from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday. Just one person survived, the airline has said.

The sun is hardly novel subject matter, but Zea eludes cliché through abstraction. His use of high contrast often erases all context, leaving only fragmented subjects that can make an image ...

Clash of Empires, the Dark Knight trades his gothic cape for a feathered headdress and the guttural poetry of Náhuatl.

We’re all familiar with the sun’s daily motion in the sky. It rises in the east, gets higher in the sky until circa noon, then begins its hours-long descent to set on the western horizon. You ...