From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of ...

Balachandra Rao: Mathematician, astronomer, historian of science, decoding India's rich intellectual heritage while challenging pseudoscience and advocating scientific temper.

Our nation’s rich heritage encompasses a wealth of ancient scientific knowledge that has majorly shaped the world. From astronomy and mathematics to medicine and metallurgy, scientists who lived ...

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World is, therefore, not just about the wonder that was India but its influence on the rest of the world.

The results are also a sign of India’s continued advances in lunar exploration. Details were published Aug. 21 by an all-Indian team in the journal Nature . Going south ...

Hidden in a museum’s archives for decades, an ancient astrolabe recently got a closer evaluation in which experts discovered that etched inscriptions on the device showed signs of scientific ...

Astrology and astronomy—two words that sound similar but evoke vastly different images—represent two branches of human curiosity about the stars. One is steeped in ancient wisdom and mystical ...

It was already clear that Nut played a key role in ancient Egyptian cosmology, with the goddess often depicted arched over her brother, Geb—and sometimes studded with stars.