The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

Hercules, perhaps the greatest hero of Greek mythology, was born a demigod, the progeny of Alcmene and the god Zeus. As part god, Hercules is already one up on any of our contemporary superheroes.

Bulls are revered across cultures as symbols of power, virility, and strength, seen in figures like India’s Nandi and the Taurus constellation. Yet, in myths like the Greek Minotaur, they also ...

Aquarius (The Water Bearer) – January 20 to February 18 The Water Bearer symbolizes Aquarius. In Greek mythology, Zeus fell in love with a beautiful mortal named Ganymede and brought him to serve as ...

In Japanese, the word "Subaru" is commonly used to refer to the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the "Seven Sisters," which you can find in the constellation of Taurus. In Greek mythology, the ...

The Taurus constellation aligns with the myth of the abduction/seduction of Europa. cascoly2 – stock.adobe.com Taurus aligns with the Greek myth of Zeus’s bait-and-switch seduction/abduction ...

And of course, there is the Big Dipper and Little Dipper. Orion is one of the more easily identified winter constellations. Orion, you may recall, was a prominent character in Greek mythology known ...

This article discusses the idea of a 13th zodiac sign, Ophiuchus. While the constellation Ophiuchus exists and the Sun does pass through it, astrologers don't consider it a zodiac sign because the ...

Greetings, stargazers. A prominent winter constellation is Taurus, the bull. It is particularly easy to find this month, because Jupiter is right in the middle of it. At magnitude -2.68, Jupiter ...