Centre of the universe

On 29 July 2021, more than four centuries after the invention of the telescope, the man who initiated a revolution in astronomy was finally honoured with a life-sized bronze statue. In the herb garden

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This groundbreaking astronomer helped us discover our place in the universe

I used to describe myself as ‘chronically late’. Having grown up in Uruguay, this was simply the norm. Timings there were as much a suggestion as red traffic lights were: open to personal interpretati

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa

Ten years ago, Pluto emerged from the gloom at the Solar System’s ragged edge – and a new world came in from the cold. Five billion kilometres (3 billion miles) from Earth, on 14 July 2015, NASA’s pia