The first publication by Galileo Galilei has set a new auction record for the celebrated astronomer, selling for $1.5 million ...

Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6, 2009, with the goal of observing more than 100,000 stars in ...

The Moon again loomed large for Kepler in 1610 when he received a copy of Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius (or Starry Messenger).Relying on the then-novel telescope, Galileo announced his ...

Galileo is believed to have published his book on Kepler's Supernova in 1605. A small library’s worth of rare medieval and Renaissance books are heading to auction on July 9.