Islamicate celestial globes made as early as the eleventh century are found in museums and private collections today. There are also references in classical Greek and Roman literature to carlier ...

When I eventually decide that it’s time to manufacture or purchase my offspring, needless to say, they will be outfitted with the best tech I can force onto them, including this great day/night globe.

Antique brass globe and an old clock - Aris Suwanmalee G/Shutterstock Old, sepia-toned globes seem to be a hallmark of higher learning. That they end up in so many ancient libraries surrounded by ...

Question: We own a 12-inch globe that belonged to my husband's godfather. It is on a mahogany stand equipped with a compass and marked, "Cruchley's New Celestial Globe." A metal plate on the stand ...

“Globes have a very low survival rate,” explained Ian Fowler, director of the Osher Map Library (OML) at the University of Southern Maine. Made to be touched and spun, globes wear down over the years, ...

Some may think of globes as navigational tools, but really, they are closer to time capsules. From the earliest nomadic cultures to the so-called Age of Exploration, and beyond, the ways in which ...

Old, sepia-toned globes seem to be a hallmark of higher learning. That they end up in so many ancient libraries surrounded by great volumes of literature and history attest to their place in the world ...

(CNN) — New images captured by two of NASA’s space telescopes showcase how the light from young stars can deck the cosmos with holiday cheer. Groupings of stars resembling a Christmas tree aglow with ...

Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, Hubble catches an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13, one of the brightest ...