An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

Following the theory of heliocentrism, today we know that Earth, and the other planets of the solar system, are all in orbit around the sun. However, it was once believed that Earth was at the ...

The Sun-centered model of the solar system was first proposed more than a thousand years before Copernicus. What does our Solar System really look like? If we were to somehow fly ourselves above ...

The order of the solar system with regards to the geocentric model, according to Penn State University is Earth (stationary and at the center), moon, Mercury, Venus, sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Solar Orbiter, conversely, has multiple cameras to capture images of the sun. In March, after four flybys of Venus, the spacecraft swooped about 32 million miles over the sun’s south pole at an ...