An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Joan of Arc was as religious as a person can get without turning into a stained-glass window. When she was just 13 she claimed to have been visited by three saints – Michael, Catherine and Margaret.

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

Galileo said it best when he declared that ... The three main types of telescopes use lenses, mirrors, or a combination of both. Refracting telescopes use lenses - combining at least two, and ...

The invention of the telescope in the 17th century intensified the distress. Mr. Sokolsky shows how Galileo applied the scientific method to the study of sunspots, accelerating the downfall of ...

Galileo's camera system was also able to identify ... image data compression and a power supply unit. The catadioptric telescope – an optical system that has both refractive lenses and reflective ...

The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was unsettling.

Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his homemade telescope.

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special “compound eye,” culminating several years of ...

James Woods has lost his Pacific Palisades home in the Southern California fires that continue to devastate parts of Los ...