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 ...

The "Maps and Diagrams" section of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills was not my strong suit growing up. In fact, it was the portion of the annual standardized examination I dreaded the most. For most of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near Copernicus’ ...

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 ...