Planetary science began in earnest with Galileo's studies of the planets and their moons. For 350 years our view of the Solar System was filtered through ground-based telescopes and honed by ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An exceptionally rare and valuable copy of a 17th-century book by Galileo Galilei ...

Galileo was not the first scientist to observe the Moon through a telescope. The Englishman Thomas Harriot did so a few months earlier, in the summer of 1609, and Galileo followed suit, building ...

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

The one-page document known as the “Galileo manuscript” can’t be traced to any earlier than 1930 and was likely written by the notorious Italian forger Tobia Nicotra, it said in a statement.

In Bucktown, Trap Door Theatre’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo is brave, chaotic, and full of spectacle. Brecht’s 1938 play (with the full name Life of Galileo), written originally in German ...