New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance polymath, bears striking resemblance to the one designed by an Arab Muslim ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

Scientists have uncovered a colossal, previously hidden hydrogen cloud, named Eos, just 300 light-years from Earth — the ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...