Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) is generally credited with changing the model of the Solar System to one with the Sun at the centre. Detailed observations with telescopes have given us evidence ...

In the annals of history, Nicholas Copernicus is celebrated as the groundbreaking astronomer who toppled the geocentric view and unveiled the heliocentric model, placing the sun at the center of our ...

A 500-year-old discovery of a compass has been linked back to Nicolaus Copernicus - a Polish astronomer who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system in the 1500s. This model ...

Raised in the Lutheran church, Tycho was led to believe that the earth was the center of the universe, but his carefully ...

TIMHi, I'm Tim Peake. I'm an astronaut based here at the European Space Agency in Germany, and from December 2015, to June 2016, I spent six months orbiting Earth on the International Space Station.