(via Dr. Becky) The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not in a special place in the Universe. Us humans are not privileged observers, we’re seeing the same Universe as everyone else; and ...

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, ...

Feb. 19, 2023, marks the 550th anniversary of the birth of a man that changed modern science forever, Nicolaus Copernicus. His observations drastically altered the way we see ourselves in the wider ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States. New research has ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is ...

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, ...

It was in 1543 that Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the 1,400 year dominance of Ptolemaic cosmology when he published De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of ...