A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

Past studies have suggested that this memory-related process is supported by phase precession, which is a shift in the timing at which specific neurons are fired. Up until now, however ...

Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Warsaw, and the University of Iceland have demonstrated that by optical means it ...

This is called the precession of the equinoxes. It means the north star, currently Polaris, changes over time, and so do the positions of all of the stars in the sky from any given place.

The memorial service for Golden Police Officer Evan Dunn will be held Wednesday in Littleton. Flags will fly at half-staff ...

The main climatic effect of precession is to shift the season when the Earth has its closest pass to the Sun (perihelion) — the so-called precession of the equinoxes. Today, perihelion occurs in ...

Vega, one of the brightest, most famous and most important stars in the night sky, has no evidence of giant planets around it ...

Researchers have discovered the first evidence that the brightest accretion disks around supermassive black holes "wobble" as their monstrous occupants drag them around.

In the second of the two-part turbine series, Titan Enterprises shares the five critical design features for Pelton wheel ...

The gravitational field of a rotating black hole is powerful and strange. It is so powerful that it warps space and time back ...

Changes in Earth's orbit have helped pace climatic change for millennia. Scientists are now trying to understand whether - and how - these changes remodeled the landscapes our ancient ancestors ...

In the South Valley, Día de los Muertos isn’t just about celebrating the dead, it’s about empowering people to come together ...