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

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

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

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

Kepler, delighted, wrote a book-length response. The enormity of the Moon’s mountains and valleys that Galileo observed led Kepler to speculate that its inhabitants, if any, were also enormous.

It was 400 years ago that Galileo Galilei opened the window to the skies with a telescope In 1609 Johannes Kepler published his Astronomia Nova and in the proces s ...

We live in an extraordinary era, one where science and technology advance at a staggering pace. Discoveries of invisible dimensions, quantum entanglements, and the mysteries of the universe — topics ...

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light across space.