ESA marked the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics by capturing the venue from low-Earth orbit.

Last month was the world’s fifth-warmest January on record, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported, even as sharp cold spells hit large parts of the Northern Hemisphere in the ...

Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which he described in his landmark work De revolutionibus ...

Members of Warminska Grupa Eksploracyjna or Warmian Exploration Group, an amateur archaeology organization in Poland, discovered a 500-year-old compass that may have belonged to Renaissance astronomer ...

His theories may have revolutionised the way we think about the world, but the face of Copernicus has since been lost to time. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer born in 1473, revolutionised the ...

The European Commission selected Arianespace to launch five Copernicus satellites on Vega C rockets between 2024 and 2026. Credit: Arianespace WASHINGTON — The European Commission awarded a contract ...

On 8 June 2023, the European Earth observation programme Copernicus celebrated its 25th birthday. The information from the seven Sentinel satellites is the basis for research and monitoring of climate ...

On 5 September 2024 at 03:50 CEST (22:50 local time), the new Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite was launched from Kourou, French Guiana. Sentinel-2C is the third of four Sentinel-2 satellites and will ...

Nicolas Copernicus is a scientific icon. He, of course, discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Copernicus also wrote a little known essay entitled On the Minting of Money. Last month, ...

It's Nicolaus Copernicus' 540th birthday, and Google marked the day with a lovely medieval model of the heliocentric solar system. Why? Because Copernicus was the first person to say what every ...