LARGO, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say a man died searching for Frisbees in a lake at a disc golf course where people are warned by signs to beware of alligators. The unidentified man was ...

Ancient stars located surprisingly near to our sun formed less than a billion years ... "These ancient stars in the disc suggest that the formation of the Milky Way's thin disc began much earlier ...

Minoans may have created the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.

The artifact, known today as the Nebra Sky Disc, held an ancient depiction of the cosmos, featuring a sun and moon or the ... and of those who live near the sea, and who inhabit rich country ...

The solar system, says ter Haar, must once have consisted of the sun, surrounded by a vast atmosphere of gas. The system’s revolution shaped this atmosphere into a flattish disc. Near the center ...

Their handheld sensors picked up a signal on Mittelberg Hill near the town of Nebra ... was becoming entrenched. The Sky Disc’s golden orb (probably the sun, but also maybe a full moon ...

On July 9, 2023, I took my first solar time lapse of an entire full disc of the sun, showing a lot of interesting features in motion such as eruptive prominences and minor solar flares visible in ...

Another arc near the edge of the disc may have represented a boat — maybe a "sun boat" like the "solar barque" in the ancient Egyptian religion — or a sickle, which may indicate that the disc ...

The Nebra disc is emblazoned with symbols of the Sun, Moon and stars and said by some to be 3,600 years old. Writing in the journal Antiquity, a team casts doubt on the idea the disc was used by ...