The picture that appears on my computer screen changes frequently. When I signed on this week there was a picture of a stone structure related to Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. I find it especially ...

Artemis, the moon goddess and Apollo's twin sister in Greek mythology, is a befitting name for NASA's latest lunar mission, which plans to put the first woman on the moon by 2024. NASA Administrator ...

Excavations on a Greek island have revealed an ancient temple where animal sacrifices once took place. The temple lies within an ancient Greek sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Artemis located in the ...

Tufts University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Female astronauts are currently less likely to be selected for missions than men because their bodies tend to hit NASA’s ...

In Scripture, Acts 19 recounts a series of miracles that led to mass conversions of residents of Ephesus. The conversions created an economic problem. Ephesus was, at the time, world-renowned for a ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Subhead: The Greek goddess of the hunt and moon and the mortal Atalanta, with their strong wills ...

(The Conversation) — A scholar of Greek mythology explains the naming of NASA’s missions after mythological figures and why the name Artemis is indicative of a more diverse era of space exploration.