In 1984’s The Last Starfighter, Alex Rogan became a video game champion and savior of the galaxy when an arcade game called Starfighter opened a path to cosmic adventure. So many of us dream of ...

The star catalog was made by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 162 and 127 BCE, 1,400 years before the telescope. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Email address Sign up Thank you!

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

IDG / Hayden Dingman. Oh, this is interesting. Yes, this is where Ubisoft’s hidden all the history blurbs about Ancient Greece. Every single “Eye” icon on the map indicates another blurb.

Paul Cartledge, in “Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece,” puts the city back on the cultural map, and makes a case for the Theban general Epaminondas as the Nelson of his day ...