NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

Francis Collins, a geneticist who led the Human Genome Project, is a notable example. A devout Christian, Collins sees no contradiction between his faith and his scientific work. He argues that ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

It discusses how early thinkers like the Egyptians and Greeks perceived the cosmos, leading to the heliocentric model proposed by Copernicus and refined by Kepler. Galileo's experiments laid the ...

He had first-row seats to the way they managed to preserve the study of heliocentrism ... Copernicus will show up at the end, Nick Fury-style, to “put together a team” to model the solar ...

the once mainstream Ptolemaic geocentric belief that the sun rotated around the Earth was challenged by the Renaissance polymath Nicolaus Copernicus who argued it was the other way around, offering a ...

This stunning photo shows every single planet in the solar system at the same time during a rare alignment that won’t happen again until 2040. Taken from a field in Somerset, the groundbreaking ...

But such events are not just a treat for stargazers – they can also have a real impact on our Solar System and offer the opportunity to gain new insights about our place within it. The eight ...

Researchers used a supercomputer to model the structure of the Oort cloud based on the trajectories of comets as well as the gravitational forces within and beyond our solar system. They ...