People in ancient Babylon used geometry to calculate the position of Jupiter some 1,400 years earlier than previously thought. (Representational Image) People in ancient Babylon used geometry to ...

Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and it is rewriting what I thought I knew about how planets form and survive.

Ancient Babylonians charted Jupiter’s heavenly motion in a surprisingly modern, mathematically abstract way — a feat that until now was thought to have originated among European scholars who lived ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system– whether it’s rocky Earth or massive Jupiter– are round? It’s something we rarely think about, but there’s a clear reason behind it. And ...

A: The short answer is gravity. This ‘force’, by virtue of the large masses of planets and stars, forces them into a spherical shape. Part of the answer is also geometry: a sphere is the most compact ...

Ancient astronomers were highly sophisticated observers of the night sky. Though they lacked telescopes or any kind of magnification device, stargazing is one of the only things you could do at night, ...

MIAMI—People in ancient Babylon used geometry to calculate the position of Jupiter some 1,400 years earlier than previously thought, researchers said Friday. The findings in the US journal Science are ...