The Tycho Supernova Remnant is named for the famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who reported observing the supernova in 1572.

Tycho Brahe, an astronomer, studied alchemy to help make medical elixirs. Researchers found traces of tungsten in shards of glass and ceramic from his laboratory. Tungsten wouldn't be isolated for ...

A chemical mystery lurks in the laboratory of Tycho Brahe, one of the most famous astronomers of all time. Scientists found tungsten in Brahe's lab, and they're not sure how it got there.

Scientists analyzed artifacts from Tycho Brahe’s lab and found tungsten, an element unknown in his time, rewriting our understanding of historical alchemy.

Eric Brahe was visiting Prague when Tycho is believed to have been poisoned. In The Name of Scientific Progress But perhaps Brahe’s death had more scientific motivations.

Tycho Brahe News from United Press International. An international team of scientists from the United States, Australia and Germany have offered new insights into the origins of Tycho's supernova.

Tycho Brahe lived in Denmark in the 16th century, and spent his career charting the laws of planetary motion. With his precise measurements, the astronomer destroyed centuries-old theories on such ...

Archaeology & History Renaissance Alchemist’s Lab Yields Surprising Element. Artifacts from Tycho Brahe's laboratory were found to contain an element not described until 180 years after his death.

Tycho Brahe is best known as a Danish Renaissance astronomer. But he was also a bit of an alchemist, and a first-ever analysis on shards found at his former home from the 1500s has shed some light ...

Renaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe, known for his studies of the heavens, was also a alchemist. A new study of glass shards reveals what Brahe was working with in his lab.

Two years after Tycho Brahe was exhumed from his grave in Prague, chemical analyses of his corpse show that mercury poisoning did not kill the prolific 16th-century astronomer.

Tycho Brahe (1546-1603) was a pioneering Danish astronomy instruments enthusiast in the decades before the telescope was used for peering at the sky. Aside from that and a big supernova discovery ...