Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near ...

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

A bronze compass, possibly used by one of history’s greatest astronomers, was recently uncovered during an archaeological dig ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near Copernicus’ burial site. The ...

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

Religious beliefs have been woven into the fabric of human existence for millennia, shaping cultures and guiding personal ...

Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...

The credit for that goes to Galileo Galilee (1564-1642) who proposed the concept (aka. Galilean Invariance) as a way of arguing for the heliocentric model of the universe. Galileo’s ship ...