The EU recognises the strategic nature of space and that space is key for the EU’s freedom of action and autonomous decision-making in security and defence.

But it was not always so. Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo came along, everyone thought the planets (that they knew about) revolved around Earth, and before even that, no one was ...

The terrific astronomical trio of Copernicus, Isaac Newton and Galileo explain how they each came to their universal scientific conclusions (including that the Earth goes round the Sun ...

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To safeguard its security and sovereignty, the EU must own an autonomous and reliable satellite network and a fully European ...

When all was said and done, the major thinkers of the Scientific Revolution (Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Descartes) had revealed a universe which seemed like a perfectly run machine ...

By the 17th century, famed engineer and astronomer Galileo Galilei refined Copernicus' heliocentric model using observations made with telescopes he built himself. However, it was not until Kepler ...

It comes as the European Commission announced plans to pump an extra €5bn (£4.4bn) into space projects, including Galileo and the Copernicus Earth Observation Programme, which will be delivered ...

The European Union's new space chief said on Tuesday that Europe must boost rocket production, ramp-up spending and ...