A 500-year-old discovery of a compass has been linked back to Nicolaus Copernicus - a Polish astronomer who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system in the 1500s. This model ...

Scientists say America is no longer the only place with a Grand Canyon as NASA spots two enormous chasms carved into the ...

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make ... Using a model, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager demonstrates ...

The monsoon system ... modern solar constant (1,365 W/m 2), other atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations set to preindustrial values (CH4 and N2O set to 760 and 270 ppbv, respectively), and ...

George Wetherill receives the National Medal of Science for his contributions to the development of radiometric age-dating techniques and theoretical models simulating the evolution of the inner solar ...

Named for Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, the Copernicus Science Centre is where budding scientists can learn more about topics like electricity, light and engineering. In addition to hands ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S ... because it suggests that perhaps something has changed in the system." The biggest contributor to our warming climate is greenhouse ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt. They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar ...