We connected with Florian Winkler to learn how he created such an elegant and informative map that invites exploration.

Long forgotten and hidden under layers of religious texts, the world’s earliest star catalog has just resurfaced. Scientists have managed to pull fragments of it from a 1,500-year-old manuscript by ...

Some discoveries make you stop and stare. The Nebra Sky Disc is one of them. Unearthed in Germany, this 3,800-year-old bronze disc seems simple at fir.

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 ...

Constellations through the ages -- Constellations of the zodiac -- An astronomy primer -- Watching the skies -- How this book is organized -- The greek alphabet -- Map of the northern sky -- Map of ...

This map was made possible by Zhang and Green's measurement of the extinction curve towards an unprecedented number of stars—130 million, compared to previous works, which contained approximately 1 ...