Summer broke global heat records for the second straight year, scientists have confirmed — putting 2024 firmly on track to be the hottest year in recorded history. The period between June and August — ...

A graphic shows global average temperatures between June and August in 2024 were warmer than ever before measured, making the summer of 2024 the hottest on record. (Copernicus Climate Change Service ...

Earth's more than year-long streak of record-shattering hot months kept on simmering through June, according to the European climate service Copernicus. There's hope that the planet will soon see an ...

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 ...

Copernicus proved the Earth and other planets orbit the sun, challenging centuries of belief and risking persecution for sharing his heliocentric view.