Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter. He ...

Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei died. Their death and birth, exactly 300 years apart on ...

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

On January 7, 1610, the Italian astronomer Galileo discovered three of Jupiter's moons: Callisto, Europa and Io. When he ...

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

When it comes to belonging and identity, tonight’s glittering drag artists are light years from staid science clubs of yore.

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.

As a scientist turned novelist, Dr. Katherine E.A. Korkidis successfully made the transition by crafting stories that showcased her passion for ...

Humans like to think by analogy, and this method often works well for advancing knowledge. For instance, when Galileo first turned his new telescope towards the heavens in 1609–10, he quickly noted ...

Galileo, who had observed Jupiter ... who caught a glimpse of the galaxy (without a telescope of course) and recorded it in his Book of Fixed Stars in the year 964. Al-Sufi’s priority ...

A new study suggests that an ultra-energetic cosmic ray which approached Earth from the direction of a vast intergalactic ...