The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus catalogued the coordinates of the stars. Now, his efforts have finally been uncovered. This cross-fade montage shows a detail of the palimpsest under ordinary ...

The positions of constellations on the Farnese Atlas, a Roman copy of a Greek celestial globe, were analyzed using photogrammetry. Analysis indicates the globe's ...

Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries later. A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that the ...

Researchers believe they may have found a fragment of a long-lost star map compiled by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who made the earliest known attempt to chart the entire night sky. In a ...

The discovery has also revealed star coordinates, meaning Hipparchus was the first to use them for determining the positions of those stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Researchers used multispectral imaging to reveal the hidden text (which is traced in yellow above). Courtesy of the Museum of the Bible Collection. All rights ...

The Greek astronomer Hipparchus is often called the "father of astronomy." He's credited with discovering the Earth's precession (how it wobbles on its axis) and calculating the motions of the Sun and ...

Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have recently found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed by the Greek astronomer ...

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 discovered ...

If you think writing paper is expensive these days, be glad you didn’t live in the Middle Ages. Back then, paper was as rare as hen’s teeth, so good luck finding some to write on. But if you happened ...

Evidence points to the map being made by Hipparchus, the "father of scientific astronomy." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.