With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

As observations of the motions of the planets became more detailed, the descriptions of the Solar System had to get very complex in order to keep the Earth at the centre. Nicolas Copernicus (1473 ...

A 500-year-old discovery of a compass has been linked back to Nicolaus Copernicus - a Polish astronomer who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system in the 1500s. This model ...

Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo came along ... we now have a good understanding of our Solar System. From the one with the ears, to the 11 year old girl that gave one of them ...