Quite a number of people are acquainted with the tale of a woman who has snakes for hair and whose gaze can petrify even the mightiest of men. What then, was the real story behind this transformation?

Early depictions of the gorgon Medusa-a monster from Greek mythology-show an ugly, winged woman with serpents entwined in her hair, bulging eyes, a wide grin, a protruding tongue, and boar tusks, ...

ESO’s wonderfully named Very Large Telescope has done it again, capturing some of the most detailed images ever taken of the beautiful Medusa Nebula. Astronomers used the Chile-housed telescope to ...

When Athena turned the vain, beautiful Medusa into a monster with a head full of snakes, it was said in Greek myth no man could look upon her without turning to stone. The building that Medusa, a ...