A clear overview of the black hole information paradox and the ongoing scientific debate about whether physical information ...

Ra was not just the Egyptian Sun God — he was believed to be the creator of the universe itself. In this video, we explore ...

Palestinians in Gaza gathered for the predawn meal on the first day of fasting as the month of Ramadan began in several Arab and Islamic countries, while it is set to start in some other states a day ...

Researchers have identified the earliest known "mechanically sophisticated" drill found in association with ancient Egyptian ...

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced the official working hours for the banking sector during Ramadan 2026, as part of its commitment to organizing operations and ensuring flexible provision of ...

A stunning rediscovery of the Lighthouse of Alexandria’s remains after 1,600 years underwater is now providing invaluable ...

Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta (House of Fatwa), the country’s official authority on Islamic legal rulings, announced on Friday that it will conduct the official sighting of the crescent moon marking the sta ...

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

History is often taught as if astronomy followed a single European arc—from Greek philosophy to Renaissance telescopes to modern science—while Africa appears absent or myth-bound. This series, “When ...

Surrounded by metal pipes and tangles of cables, two researchers point to bright orange squiggles on a computer screen. The squiggles are a poem written in ancient Greek about heavenly phenomena, seen ...

Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos. When you purchase ...