Mortal and fleeting, human life barely registers on the vast clock of the cosmos. Claudius Ptolemy believed Earth stood at the center of that universe, with the Moon, Sun, planets, and stars moving in ...

A parchment, part of a larger manuscript found in the library of the Bobbio Abbey in Italy, is believed to be authored by ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geographer Claudius Ptolemy. It ...

The night sky in July a phenomenon that reminds skywatchers how remarkable it is just to be alive and to experience such wonders. As impressive as winter’s constellations are, they don’t hold a candle ...

Ancient Greek astronomers likely observed Uranus as a star, but limited tools and geocentric views kept them from recognizing it as a planet. Credit: NASA/JPL / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain While ...

This is a quiet month for video game releases, as January tends to be, but there’s at least one approaching asteroid in the shape of Space Engineers 2. Announced over the winter, it’s a spruced-up ...

Jean Arp’s abstract sculpture Ptolémée II, a testament to the French-German artist’s biomorphic style, stands like an alien relic. Its soft bronze form wraps around a central void, the artwork’s true ...

Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...

This fall, the French fashion house Celine will release a miniature version of a work by the artist Jean Arp — in the form of a pendant. By Megan Conway In 1952, the German-French artist Jean Arp made ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credits: Apple TV Plus Created by Walter Mosley, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey is a drama miniseries that revolves around a ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In a world where GPS is a thumb stroke away, most people take maps for granted. It’s hard to fathom that the oldest surviving maps had ...