From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News

A Greek gadget discovered more than a century ago in a 2,100-year-old shipwreck not only tracked the motion of heavenly bodies and predicted eclipses, but also functioned as a sophisticated calendar and mapped the four-year cycle of the ancient Greek Olympics.

Astronomers have found big benefits from recruiting the public to lend their eyes and image-processing prowess

A controversial interpretation of passages from the Odyssey suggests that Homer knew much more about planetary motions than historians thought possible.

Astronomers hope that new tools will enable them to capture the first image of one of the 300 known planets orbiting distant stars.

A Dutch science teacher found a novel celestial object that had eluded the notice of astronomers.

Astronomers have discovered the first known system of three superEarths beyond the solar system.