Uranus departs the evening sky by mid-April ... Cancer, the Crab. In Greek mythology, Cancer is a giant crab sent by Hera to attack Hercules during the second of his twelve labors.

There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...

Elsewhere in the Solar System, Earth has one moon, Mars has two, Jupiter has 95, Uranus has 28 and Neptune ... were given names from Greco-Roman mythology. But the large number of moons ...

Saturn has 128 more moons than astronomers previously thought - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 ...

Elsewhere in the Solar System, Earth has one moon, Mars has two, Jupiter has 95, Uranus has 28 and Neptune ... were given names from Greco-Roman mythology. But the large number of moons ...

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One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

British author J. R. R. Tolkien's tale of the fall of Númenor was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis.

According to ancient Greek mythology, there are five ages known as The Ages of Man, during which time humanity reaches its peak and then ends ...

Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because we constantly refer to myths and stories of Ancient Greece to make sense of contemporary events. From Fate & Fabled ...

This technique revealed that Uranus completes a full rotation in 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds—28 seconds longer than the estimate obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby.