Stonehenge is not alone in its astronomical significance. Across Britain, other stone circles and monuments—like Avebury, Castlerigg, and Callanish—show similar alignments with the sun and moon.

Stonehenge, the infamous stone circle on Salisbury Plain, U.K., dates to around 2500 B.C.E. The monument is aligned so that if you are standing at the center of the ring on the summer soltice ...

Stonehenge consists of multiple stone groupings erected in different phases over hundreds of years, starting 5,000 years ago. Experts estimate the first stage’s 43 “bluestones” arrived ...

Stonehenge gets some well-deserved attention when it comes to British archeology.Between its age, altar stone’s epic journey, and potential origin as a community building initiative, it has a ...

The Perseids, one of the year's most prolific meteor showers, peaked this week, raining dozens of "shooting stars" per hour through Earth's skies. Stonehenge, built about 5,000 years ago to align ...

A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that it was not built to observe the heavens.