Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States. New research has ...

Challenging the status quo often invites skepticism. Think of pioneers like Copernicus and Vibhishan, who were scorned for ...

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 ...

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer whose revolutionary heliocentric theory changed our understanding of the ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: This work is in the public domain in the ...