In the course of his life, Galileo clashed with other philosophers and religious figures who were committed to the geocentric ...

For more than a thousand years, humanity believed the Earth sat at the center of the universe. Nicolaus Copernicus quietly ...

Astronomers have identified powerful winds of vaporized metals inside a vast cloud that blocked the light of a distant star ...

A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was ...

Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months. This discovery, made ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow shock" as it zooms through the Milky Way. The cosmic zombie is also ripping ...

Astronomers have been shocked by an inexplicable and unprecedented wave that came out of a dead star. Occasionally, the gas and dust that flows out of stars can crash into the material around the star ...

The unearthing of a 500-year-old scientific instrument in northern Poland has given historians a rare, tangible link to the world of Nicolaus Copernicus. Archaeologists and independent researchers now ...

Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near Copernicus’ burial site. The compass resembles the one often depicted with ...

Archaeologists in Frombork, Poland, have unearthed a rare 16th-century compass, a remarkable find that may be linked to the time of Nicolaus Copernicus, the pioneering astronomer. Discovered during a ...

LAKE LEDNICA, POLAND—Notes from Poland reports that when underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University retrieved a section of a wooden beam from the bottom of Lake Lednica, they were ...