Saturn, god of time and agriculture, had been told that his children posed a threat ... Since Venus was not initially worshipped in Rome, she had no myths, temples or cults of her own, and so almost ...

Uranus is undoubtedly the most oddly named planet in our Solar System, but things could have been worse. After all, being the ...

Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon. Rhea is made up of rock and ice and is ...

“Ulysses and the Sirens,” John William Waterhouse, 1891. Credit: Public Domain Greek mythology came to life on canvas through numerous vibrant artworks, many of which have transcended into ...

The idea that Saturn's rings are young seemed very strange in the context of the solar system's long evolutionary history." Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently ...

New Year's Eve was celebrated in ancient times, contrary to what some may believe. It was among the most universal pagan ...

Archaeologists from the Antiquities Ephorate were called to the scene and after a preliminary investigation it became apparent that the sculpture was a well-preserved sculptured torso of the Ancient ...

the bright planets Jupiter and Saturn were named by the Romans after their most powerful gods. Centuries later, in the 1700s and 1800s, two more planets were uncovered, telescopically, far beyond ...

Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...