As the moon dances between the sun and Earth, a celestial spectacle awaits - imagine the sky painted with 'devil's horns' or ...

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New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three separate bodies orbiting one another in a complex triad. This rare ...

“This is really an eclipse for North and South America,” said astronomy expert Michael Faison from Yale ... And a civilization in ancient Mesopotamia saw the blood red moon as a bad omen for the king.

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light on the rise of farming in the region. Researchers, led by ...

Under higher power, the pair often looks white and yellow instead, according to Astronomy associate editor Michael Bakich. Sunrise: 7:19 A.M. Sunset: 7:02 P.M. Moonrise: 3:31 P.M. Moonset ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.

Michael Hudson is an American economist, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. He is a former Wall ...

Illustration of Mesopotamian urban center. Credit: Discovering Mesopotamia. Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban ...