New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: ...

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

The Sweden Solar System is the largest scale model of the Solar System in existence, and it spans the entire Swedish territory. It was created by astronomers Nils Brenning and Gösta Gahm to help ...

From there, we took a whistlestop tour of the solar system, stopping off at the moon, Mars, Jupiter (and its moon Ganymede), and Saturn (and its moon Enceladus). We even got to take a mercifully ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ... a compelling new model for the formation ...

This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are lighter than stars, but heavier than gas ...

Wrong-way crash on I-71 caught on video overnight The statue is a black basalt figure from the Ptolemaic era and dates from 200-100 BCE or later, according to CMA. The museum has had the statue ...

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting the chemical footprint of gases in an alien planet's atmosphere that on ...