There's a Copernicus museum and a Copernicus altar; even the tower where he did his stargazing almost 500 years ago has been carefully preserved. One thing is missing: Copernicus himself.

In an extraordinary discovery that sheds light on medieval Slavic culture, underwater archaeologists have found a haunting ...

Notes from Poland reports that when underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University retrieved […] ...

Named for Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, the Copernicus Science Centre is where budding scientists can learn more about topics like electricity, light and engineering. In addition to hands ...

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

Nicolaus Copernicus; Nicolaus Copernicus' 540th birthday celebrated with a Google doodle He was best known for his theory that the Sun rather than the Earth is at the centre of the universe.

Nicolaus Copernicus was born on the 19th of February 540 years ago. And scholars are still awed by this Polish scientist who stubbornly stuck to his beliefs when the whole scientific world seemed ...

In 1543, when Nicolaus Copernicus made the astounding claim that Earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around, his ideas were met with scorn. "It went against everything that your ...

It's common knowledge that Nicolaus Copernicus was a great astronomer. He developed the heliocentric theory, which brought about a revolution in the world of science. From that moment, the way people ...

Thorvaldsen’s work is one of the best-known images of Nicolaus Copernicus. The immortalisation of the eminent Polish scientist was intended to correspond with the ideals and aspirations of the Warsaw ...

Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was the astronomer who formulated the first modern heliocentric theory of the solar system. His epochal text, De revolutionibus orbium ...