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 ...

Discover the giant legacy of the Renaissance period astronomers Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe in Prague, the city of a hundred spires, where astronomy, maths, music and art connect.

Having recently read S J Parris’s novel Alchemy, set in 16th century Prague, and finding myself in the Czech capital on a ...

Summary A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pioneering German scientist and a pivotal figure in the history of astronomy.

And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...

In 1929, an astronomer named Edwin Hubble stood atop Mount Wilson in California, peering into the night sky. What he s ...