Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which he described in his landmark work De revolutionibus ...
Members of Warminska Grupa Eksploracyjna or Warmian Exploration Group, an amateur archaeology organization in Poland, discovered a 500-year-old compass that may have belonged to Renaissance astronomer ...
The European Commission selected Arianespace to launch five Copernicus satellites on Vega C rockets between 2024 and 2026. Credit: Arianespace WASHINGTON — The European Commission awarded a contract ...
After full moon, the terminator returns, but this time on the moon's opposite side, where it marks the line of advancing ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near Copernicus’ burial site. The ...