Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

Although the occurrence climaxed on Jan. 21 with a conjunction—close alignment—of Saturn and Mercury, the planetary parade ...

The idea of a rotating Earth became widely accepted only after Copernicus’ theory of heliocentrism in the 16th century, almost 1,000 years after Aryabhata’s discoveries. The Sushruta Samhita ...

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

The second-highest mountain in New Zealand has been granted ‘personhood’ by the NZ parliament because it is regarded as the ...

Astrology, the belief that the positions of celestial bodies influence earthly events and human lives, has been a pervasive ...

The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not in a special place in the Universe. Us humans are not privileged ...