Imagine two armies facing off, ready for battle—a scene from the Mithridatic Wars—when suddenly a burning, massive object ...

The Greeks built on Babylonian astronomy to make their observations of eclipses, and the word “ekleipsis” appears as early as the fifth century B.C. in Thucydides’s history of the Peloponnesian War, ...

Since man first looked up to the sky, the moon has been one of the most fascinating and admired celestial bodies. It appears ...

The word monsoon comes from the Arabic word “mausim,” which means season. This is a fitting way to describe the period when rainstorms are more prevalent in the desert. "A monsoon is a large-scale ...

Unlike what is portrayed in television and movies, the government has not found evidence of UFOs—or unidentified flying objects—that are extraterrestrial in nature. However, the government is ...