Question: What would happen if the sun rotated around the earth? Answer: You asked this because you learned the earth revolves around the sun, right? Indeed, that is how we understand the solar system ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover science and technology. Four hundred years ago this month, Galileo was in Rome, trying to pick up the pieces of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The Ptolemaic model, where the Earth was stationary, and everything ...

Galileo Galilei famously stood trial for his insistence—based on astronomical observations through his telescopes—that the Copernican model of the Solar System was correct. The Earth revolved around ...

The year 1543 A.D. will forever be celebrated as a sentinel time in the annals of science. In that year, Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish mathematician and astronomer, published his model of the universe ...

It had been hiding in plain sight. The original letter — long thought lost — in which Galileo Galilei first set down his arguments against the church’s doctrine that the Sun orbits the Earth has been ...

Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also practised as a mathematician, ...

In the early 1500s, famed Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus first proposed that the Earth was not the center of the universe — a revelation that, more than 500 years later, has catapulted the 16th ...

Few individuals have done as much to overturn people’s established view of The Way Things Are as Niklas Koppernigk, known to history by the Latinized version of his name, Nicolaus Copernicus. While he ...

Why is it that whenever scientists make a distressing discovery about our world, we want to drag them before a trial or hearing to make them account for their findings, as The Gazette suggested in a ...

In the first novel ever written about Sherlock Homes, we learn something peculiar about the London detective. Holmes, supposedly a modern man and a keen expert in the workings of the world, does not ...

With water conclusively discovered under the surface of the moon, it's a good time to revisit the moon's beautifully misnamed "waters." The Sea of Nectar, the Sea of Serenity, the Known Sea; the Lake ...