Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit ...

Researchers analyzed nearly half a million nearby star systems to understand how giant planets fare as their stars expand ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

New analysis shows that the Pleiades cluster constitutes the core of a much larger structure of related stars that are ...

An ancient Skiri Pawnee star map on elk skin reopens the debate about its true function and challenges Western ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered Population III stars, the universe's first generation of stars. They may ...

The addition of more episodes and more characters to Dune: Prophecy season 2 seems to indicate that the series is planning to go even deeper into the history of its expansive sci-fi setting, which ...

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