A 500-year-old compass recently unearthed in Frombork, Poland could provide crucial insights into the scientific practices of ...

Researchers discovered a 500-year-old compass in a hidden chamber in Frombork, Poland, possibly used by Copernicus, shedding ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which he described in his landmark work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

In most of the environments we currently study, we know too little about the conditions to meaningfully attempt such models – except for some solar system bodies, such as Saturn’s Enceladus.

Europe has taken a major step forward in strengthening resilience to extreme weather with the launch of Meteosat Third ...

Galileo used his device, as shown in Fig. 1a, to discover the moons of Jupiter, and so confirmed his conviction of the validity of the Copernican model of the Solar System.

Up on the roof, where Schublach can relax in the communal library with a view of the city and park, there are solar panels to reduce climate ... according to Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service ...