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 ...

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

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.