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 ...

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. >> Read more ...

NASA's planned mission to the moon, which aims to put the first woman on the lunar surface by 2024, has been named Artemis, after the ancient Greek goddess who was the daughter of Zeus and Leto.

* 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 ...

In 356 B.C.E., a man named Herostratus slipped into the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, Turkey, and set fire to its wooden roof, reducing much of the giant structure—which the Greek writer and physicist ...