Habsburg emperor Rudolf II owned a spirit-summoning alchemical hand bell. We want to decipher its cryptic Greek inscriptions.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Astrology
Displaying all articles
There’s nothing weird happening with Mercury. In fact, most days of the year there’s at least one planet in retrograde.
Many people think their destiny is written on the stars. It is not.
A university course teaches students why people believe false and evidence-starved claims, to show them how to determine what’s accurate and real and what’s neither.
Astrology and astronomy were once practiced side by side by scientists like Galileo and Kepler. And they’re more similar than you might think.
Fun fact: the term ‘influenza’ comes from the premodern belief stars influenced disease. Before epidemiologists, there were astrologers.
Astronomy and astrology do not agree on the dates of the zodiac constellations.
A handful of manuscripts remain which give researchers valuable insights into medieval science.
Stars begin their life inside very large, fluffy clouds of space dust and gas called nebulae.
Pursuing big, unrealistic dreams can distract from real scientific progress. It’s time for AI research to focus on restoring and expanding human control and responsibility.
The study of Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s deputy president and new head of its governing party, is generating a great deal of heat, and not much light.
Franklin advanced a scientific – not supernatural – understanding of astronomical events such as eclipses. His satirical character ‘Poor Richard’ mocked those who bought into astrological predictions.
Some rely on star signs for answers while others regard it as nonsense.
Up until the seventeenth century, astrology was seen as a scholarly tradition, and it is credited as influencing the development of many modern day subjects.
Even the sceptical can admire the determination of the wise men.
Most people reading this article will have also read their horoscope at least once. Even though scientific studies have never found evidence for the claims astrologers make, some people still think astrology…
The word “pseudoscience” is used to describe something that is portrayed as scientific but fails to meet scientific criteria. This misrepresentation occurs because actual science has creditability (which…
Astrophysicists have discovered black holes that formed up to 12.5 billion years ago – among the oldest examples of the phenomena ever seen. Black holes are objects in the Universe where a large amount…
Today, and for the next month, four major planets are aligned above us: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. Are we interested? Of course we are. From the very beginning of human history we’ve been obsessed…
Top contributors
-
Associate professor, The University of Western Australia
-
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Education; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
-
Richard Bean is a Friend of The Conversation.
Research Fellow, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland
-
Professor of Research Methodology, University of Essex
-
Research Professor and Director of the International Institute for Accelerator Applications, University of Huddersfield
-
Associate Professor in Cosmology and Culture, Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities and the Performing Arts, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
-
Lecturer in Medieval Art and Architectural History, University of York
-
Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Professor of Art History, University of St Andrews
-
Professor of English, Penn State
-
Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland
-
Professor of Astrophysics, Macquarie University
-
Postdoctoral researcher in radio astronomy, University of Sydney
-
Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
Research Fellow in Early Modern History, University of Oxford
