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

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 ...

The solution is to go to the far side of the Moon, using its bulk to shield our sensitive instruments from the cacophony of our planet. Building telescopes on the far side of the Moon would be the ...