Astronomy and Space Science

Astronomy is the earliest science to emerge in history.

The methods of measurement and the ways of thinking developed by early astronomers laid the foundation of scientific methods which influenced the development of science for centuries.

The quest for a perfect model of the universe in the Renaissance eventually led to the discovery of Newton’s law of universal gravitation and the laws of motion. This had a profound influence on the subsequent rapid development in physics.

Using physical laws in mathematical form to predict natural phenomena, and verifying these predictions with careful observation and experimentation, as Newton and other scientists did some three hundred years ago, has become the paradigm of modern physics research.

Physics has become the cornerstone of modern astronomy, revolutionising our concepts of the universe and the existence of humankind.