On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...

Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team ...

On a cold January day in 1642, Galileo Galilei took his last breath ... Galileo laid the groundwork for observational astronomy and mechanics. He gave us the law of falling bodies, the first ...

Today, the faint memory of the battle in the Italian city is recalled in the name of Cremona House and its surrounding ...

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of science, pioneering the Scientific Revolution of the XNUMXth century. His contribution to modern ...

There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...

Can scientists build a detector of near-Earth objects that would sense gravitational waves produced by any "dark" objects ...