Take a good star-lit summer night and lay on your back out in the lawn. You’ll see a lot of stars up there. At one time, when I was a ...

Within a decade of finishing his studies, Kepler sent the famed astronomer Tycho Brahe a copy of his first book, Mysterium Cosmographicum (1597).

Tycho Brahe was certainly not one of those who have been without honor in their own generation. Brahe was descended from a Swedish family which had settled in Denmark.

Four hundred years ago Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, desired silversmiths to make him a globe on which should be represented, “with exactitude,” the constellations of the stars. Silversmiths ...

We talk to Scott Hansen, the creative electronic music force known as Tycho, in advance of his live ensemble's performance at the House of Blues on Tuesday, January 21.

THE University of Copenhagen celebrated the four hundredth anniversary on December 14 of the birth of Tycho Brahe (see Nature, December 14, p. 856), and honorary degrees were conferred on twelve ...

A colossal lake larger than any on Earth has been discovered on Mars, potentially providing clues to the Red Planet's ancient watery past and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Danish Renaissance astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe worked in secrecy at his Uraniborg laboratory, where recent findings suggest he handled materials containing uncommon elements like tungsten.

Discover Tycho Brahe's hidden alchemist lab at Uraniborg, revealing his quest for medicines and the mystery of tungsten.