A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

As he saw it, the universe consisted of a series of concentric shells revolving around our planet — one each for the Sun, the Moon, every other planet, the fixed stars, and an outermost level ...

Baghdad, the Mesopotamian “cradle of civilization,” is the first stop on the map of this journey. In the prosperous court of the Abbasid caliphate (750 to 1258), paper, a necessary tool of the ...

“We now have a second, very primordial map of the universe. Instead of a ‘crisis,’ I think we have an extraordinary opportunity to use these different data sets together. Our map includes all of the ...

Today, many scholars, including medieval art historian Marcia Kupfer, think it’s unlikely that the map’s designers ever travelled to any of the places depicted on the Mappa Mundi.

In the Lascaux caves of southwestern France, which are famously adorned with 17,000-year-old paintings, the artist’s subject is almost always a large animal.. But hovering above the image of one bull ...

The map segment, which was found beneath the text on a sheet of medieval parchment, is thought to be a copy of the long-lost star catalog of the second century B.C. Greek astronomer Hipparchus ...

Jo Marchant is a freelance science writer based in London. A medieval parchment from a monastery in Egypt has yielded a surprising treasure. Hidden beneath Christian texts, scholars have ...

A map of the Universe’s cosmic microwave background radiation, measured by the Planck space observatory. Credit: ESA. Cosmologists say that they have uncovered hints of an intriguing twisting in ...