This chart, from around 1660, shows the signs of the zodiac and a model of the solar system with Earth at the centre. For decades or even centuries after Kepler clearly demonstrated that not only is ...
In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. The heliocentric theory is the idea that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system and ...
It’s from another Solar System, so of course it’s anomalous.” That refrain from planetary scientists has seldom been more apt than in the case of 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object to ...