As a scholar of Greek mythology, I find the name of the mission quite evocative: The Greeks and Romans associated Artemis with the Moon, and she has also become a modern-day feminist icon. Bust of ...

Much like many figures in Greek mythology, Atalanta has two different origin stories. In the first, the mortal heroine is the ...

Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the US. From Athena to Zeus, there is a name for ...

According to Greek mythology, Artemis — who was daughter of Zeus (king of the gods), and twin sister of Apollo (god of the sun, light and also archery) — hunted with Orion, ...

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'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.

NASA has dubbed this path back to the moon Artemis, after Apollo’s twin sister in Greek mythology. The agency also wants to establish a sustained human presence on and around the moon by 2028.

One day Artemis was bathing in the sacred pool when a young man named Actaeon happened to walk past. He had heard tales of the goddess, of course, but never had he imagined she was so beautiful.

As a scholar of Greek mythology, I find the name of the mission quite evocative: The Greeks and Romans associated Artemis with the Moon, and she has also become a modern-day feminist icon. Bust of ...

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.

As a scholar of Greek mythology, I find the name of the mission quite evocative: The Greeks and Romans associated Artemis with the Moon, and she has also become a modern-day feminist icon.