For many Americans today, the grills are out, and the fireworks set to be lit off. But for others, today has a much deeper meaning. While most say today is all about enjoying friends, family, and, of ...

The Greeks built on Babylonian astronomy to make their observations of eclipses, and the word “ekleipsis” appears as early as the fifth century B.C. in Thucydides’s history of the Peloponnesian War, ...