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

Europa was one of four moons discovered on Jan. 7, 1610, by astronomer Galileo Galilei. Speaking of Galileo, this photo was ...

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

A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most ...

In the "Star Trek" episode "The Galileo Seven" (January 5, 1967), Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Lieutenant Commander Scott (James Doohan), and three specialists are assigned ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

Galileo is a key component of mass-market applications for such areas as transport, agriculture and timing but also for ...