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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Chemical analyses of Tycho Brahe's exhumed remains have revealed that the world-renowned astronomer was regularly exposed to large quantities of gold until shortly before his death.

Silence is golden, the saying goes. But so, evidently, was the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, according to a recent study. Brahe, who was born in 1546 and died in 1601, was a keen observer of the ...

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.

The reconstruction of Tycho Brahe's face. Researchers also took advantage of the opportunity to perform a CT- scanning Tycho Brahe's skeleton while they had access to his remains in 2010.

The world's smallest suborbital vehicle, Copenhagen Suborbital's Tycho Brahe, offers standing room only for a brave would-be astronaut.

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.