Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to demonstrate that the earth orbited the sun, upsetting the prevailing notion that the earth was the center of the cosmos. But the Polish astronomer died in ...

Last month was the world’s fifth-warmest January on record, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported, even ...

Frombork is a small, quiet town perched on the shore of the Vistula Lagoon in northern Poland. Fishermen keep their boats in a cozy port. In the summer, a ferry shuttles passengers across the bay to ...

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 ...

ESA marked the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics by capturing the venue from low-Earth orbit.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near Copernicus’ ...

His theories may have revolutionised the way we think about the world, but the face of Copernicus has since been lost to time. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer born in 1473, revolutionised the ...

Frombork is a small town in northern Poland that lies just off the beaten tourist track. For the car-less visitor to reach the village means negotiating the local bus routes. But there’s a huge payoff ...

Fifty years ago Thursday, Lunar Orbiter II took a picture of a moon crater. When it was beamed back to Earth, the photo’s then-unique view made the moon real in a way it hadn’t been before — as an ...

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to demonstrate that the earth orbited the sun, upsetting the prevailing notion that the earth was the center of the cosmos. But the Polish astronomer died in ...