Every year on February 19 scientists across the world celebrate Copernicus Day. Learn about the man who changed how we view ...

Onward and outward, Jupiter rides high to the south in Taurus the Bull at dusk. The waxing near First Quarter Moon meets ...

With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

For the next few weeks, the planet Mars will form an isosceles triangle with the two bright stars marking the heads of the ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

Nicolaus Copernicus, who died in 1543 ... Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley to really pin down the mechanics of our solar system. This made it possible to predict where on Earth an eclipse will ...

In fact, we didn’t know for sure that any planets at all existed beyond our solar system, and a lot of the ... was the greatest step forward in the Copernican revolution since Copernicus ...

Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

The private sector has a crucial role to play in embedding resilience, but it cannot do much without support from other ...

What did Newton understand that was such a revolution? Can someone just... explain gravity to me? Let's start with a ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...