A near-Earth "asteroid" recently spotted by astronomers poring through telescope data has turned out to be Elon Musk's car. On January 2, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center ...

While planets circle the sun in what’s called a heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human eye as somewhat of a line across the visible horizon. Saturday is one ...

Scientists spotted a new asteroid—turns out it was Musk’s Tesla Roadster. Who knew space junk could be this expensive… or ...

In the early seventeenth century, Copernicus' concept of a heliocentric universe was further ... Kepler suggested that the planets were kept in orbit by a force emanating from the sun itself.

The ESA will conduct technology tests for several weeks after Gaia’s observations end, before the spacecraft leaves its orbit to enter its final heliocentric orbit. Gaia will ‘retire’ in ...

What's this? Oh noooo… Stella: You should know where all the planets are, they orbit the Sun, which is actually a star. This theory was known as the heliocentric model. It was controversial as ...