Every year on February 19 scientists across the world celebrate Copernicus Day. Learn about the man who changed how we view ...

For the next few weeks, the planet Mars will form an isosceles triangle with the two bright stars marking the heads of the ...

As Carlo Buontempo (Rome, 52 years old), director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service — the European Union’s Earth observation program — points out, the main bodies that monitor the world’s ...

Dead stars — or neutron stars — normally spin at breakneck speeds, but a team of astronomers has clocked the new-found star taking a leisurely six-and-a-half hours to undertake just one spin ...

A team of archaeologists discovered the remains of the 16th-century father of modern astronomy, who demonstrated that the Earth orbits the Sun. Cape astronomers were responsible for, among other ...

January 29, 2024 Centuries-old texts penned by early astronomers Copernicus and Sacrobosco find new home at RIT The ancient astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first scientist to document the ...

Putting truth on trial Armed with his discoveries, Galileo converted to Copernicanism, the thoughts of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), who had proposed that the sun was the ...