The Leiden Sphaera — the dynamic model of the solar system pictured above — was built around 1670 by Dutch clockmaker Steven Tracy. The impressive cosmic model measures 1.5 meters across, and is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Galileo, Kepler and Copernicus with planets and orbital diagrams. In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that ...

The Solar System formed from a cloud of gas, which gave rise to a proto-star, a proto-planetary disk, and eventually the seeds of what would become planets. The crowning achievement of our own Solar ...

We know that the Catholic church has a troubled history with the idea of heliocentrism, but when did this history become history? What year would Galileo have gotten away with publishing his book? In ...

To mark the 540th birth date of Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, Google has created an animated doodle on its homepage depicting the solar system as described in ...

There was a recent news item about Star Trek's Kate Mulgrew in a geocentric movie. The geocentric model states that the Sun and the planets move around the Earth instead of the heliocentric model with ...

The Solar System consists of the eight planets that orbit our Sun and other celestial bodies such as moons, comets, asteroids, minor planets, and dust and gas. The Sun is considered as the centre of ...

American writer Dan Brown released The Da Vinci Code in 2003. A mystery novel that tracks the secret surrounding the Holy Grail of Jesus through ciphers hidden in the works of Leonardo S.p.A., a ...

Google celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus's 540th birthday, a Renaissance scholar and astronomer, with an animated heliocentric model doodle. Copernicus in his seminal work De revolutionibus orbium ...