Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...

According to the Academy of Athens, scientists decoded the DNA of the famous Greek feta cheese. Recently, scientists from the ...

The lost works of an ancient Greek mathematician, Apollonius, have been discovered by scientists. Apollonius of Perga was known as "The Great Geometer," according to a Liberty University publication.

Thousands of years ago, Chinese astronomers studied the sky using an ancient record of constellations and their coordinates. Known as the “Star Manual of Master Shi,” the document is the ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo.

It’s not the most famous ancient Greek machine. In 1901, divers excavated an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. ... and it drew on the knowledge of Greek astronomers.

Secrets of the ancient astronomers Close. For most of human history, understanding the night sky was not the preserve of scientists, but a precious tool for our survival.

Astronomers Baffled by Discovery of Ancient Galaxies. The perplexing aspect of these discoveries is the presence of characteristics typically seen in much older, ... “We have confirmed that these ...

In parts of Ancient Greece, totality would have lasted some 4½ minutes. Feb. 22, 720 B.C. – This was the first of 36 solar eclipses that were observed in China and included in Confucius’ book ...

WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - When scientists in the 1960s excavated the wreck of an ancient Greek merchant ship off the northern coast of Cyprus, what they found was an amazing time capsule ...

What did the ancient Greeks do for us? Learn about how the Greeks changed the world – including philosophy, science, sport and democracy - in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 primary history guide.