Like many in my generation, I watched with amazement as the historic Apollo lunar landing took place on July 20, 1969. This event opened the door for future space exploration and showed that anything ...

Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also practised as a mathematician, ...

"Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place." In the annals of history, Nicholas Copernicus is celebrated as the groundbreaking astronomer ...

The publication of Copernicus' model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of ...

This illustration of the large GRB ring, and the inferred underlying large-scale structure, shows what might be responsible for the pattern we've observed. However, this may not be a true structure, ...