It seems like an odd question at first. Of course he didn't. No one invented the Solar System-unless you're going to suggest God in some fundamental sense. And for decades after Copernicus, most ...

Astronomers have revealed that the real center of our solar system isn't the sun. Gravity is playing a part in everything. The barycenter is the center.

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: https://www.ccvalg.pt/astronomia/historia ...

Margaret Wertheim, a science columnist for L.A. Weekly, is the author of "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space From Dante to the Internet." WHEN the 16th century Polish astronomer ...

It's Nicolaus Copernicus' 540th birthday, and Google marked the day with a lovely medieval model of the heliocentric solar system. Why? Because Copernicus was the first person to say what every ...

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 ...

Europe is committed to understanding and protecting the planet and has taken a significant leap forward with the successful ...

Copernicus, a Polish astronomer who lived in the 16th century, is believed to be one of early European scientists to have put forward the theoretical model that the Sun was the center of the solar ...