In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. The heliocentric theory is the idea that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system and ...

A brilliant Italian scientist, mathematician and astronomer, Galileo Galilei knew, as few others did in his time, that the Earth revolved around the sun. And when he refused to be silent about it, he ...

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 ...

"Elaboration of an invited paper presented in Washington in September, 1972, at the Copernicus Quincentenary celebration sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution ...

A rare group of books featuring volumes by Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei that were collected by the late astronomer—and eclipse chaser—Jay Pasachoff is coming to the auction ...

A MORE PERFECT HEAVEN: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos, by Dava Sobel. Walker & Co., 273 pp., $25. Copernicus knew what makes the world go round. Philosopher and mathematician, physician and ...

The 2020 Galileo Masters are open for submissions. The competition is designed to award applications, services and new ideas that use Galileo and EGNOS, in synergy with other space programs, to ...

Michael Kesterson, in Life Stories (Jan. 13), states that "Galileo, who died 359 years ago this week, moved Heaven and Earth" and "claimed the most startling string of discoveries ever made by a ...

The heliocentric theory is the idea that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system and that everything else – planets, asteroids, comets and the rest – revolves around it. Prior to heliocentrism, ...