These 15 Greek god animals served as sacred symbols and divine messengers in ancient mythology — and their meanings still resonate today.

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Seyni Awa Camara, whose totemic ceramic sculptures won her acclaim, has died. Her work, made in unglazed clay, typically featured multiple heads or gargoyles protruding from a single body, and was ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

Tiresias, the blind Ancient Greek prophet, could foresee the future for Apollo, and was transformed by Hera and lived as a woman for seven years ...

Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a free-floating planet for the first time. Learn more about it. Roaming the ...