When he was 28 years old, Galileo became a professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he taught geometry, mechanics and astronomy. But many of his teachings went against the ...

Early telescopes were all refracting telescopes of the kind Galileo made. While they revolutionized the science of astronomy, they had some innate downsides. The act of refraction also causes ...

Galileo has a special kind of versatility. You’ll feel equally comfortable dropping by for a drink on your own, with your boss or a date, or with the whole gang on a bachelorette weekend. Better ...

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 ...

The latest analysis of data from the Galileo probe reveals surprising clues about Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons. These discoveries could change our understanding of this icy satellite.

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.

A recent article in the journal Sensors highlights the Galileo Project, an initiative tackling gaps in the scientific study of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The project is focused on ...

In the 1990s, however, NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured magnetic measurements near Callisto that suggested that its ice shell surface—much like that of Europa, another moon of Jupiter—may ...

Galileo had taught his daughter to transcribe his work but ... The name she chose, Maria Celeste, is in honor of the Virgin Mary and her father's celestial astronomy. Her life was cut short by ...