This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which ...

Innovative scanners, 24-karat gold, and a meteorite from 4.5 billion years ago – that’s what was used to produce the newest edition of Nicolaus Copernicus’ autograph manuscript On the Revolutions of ...

Copernicus is inarguably one of the greatest minds of science. His contributions to modern astronomical understanding have earned him a permanent position in the hall of science's greatest (and ...

FROMBORK, Poland — Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, ...

In 1510 Nicolaus Copernicus conceived the project that would become the major work of his lifetime: working out the mathematical details of a heliocentric universe. By 1539 his project was ...

Only a few scientific theories completely revolutionized the way we look at the universe: Einstein’s theory of relativity, Darwin’s theory of evolution and Copernicus’ theory of a heliocentric ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE seed for the wrath that fell on the head of Galileo Galilei, famously prosecuted for heresy for what his inquisitors called the ...

Copernicus as the old saying goes: "I was born at night but not last night." Eleven years ago tonight your mother Eloisa went into labor in the area near the dining room in our old townhouse in San ...