Shortly after he began producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days, the telescope is mostly closely associated with the night sky, but it's also useful on land and ...

A trailblazing exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum explores our fascination with the moon, from the first time Galileo trained his telescope ... removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in ...

On a cold January day in 1642, Galileo Galilei took his last breath ... That's what Galileo did when he pointed his telescope at the heavens and declared that Earth wasn't the centre of the ...

This season’s example is Philip Glass’s “Galileo ... his heretical assertion that the Earth revolves around the stationary sun; at his early discoveries (mechanics, the refracting telescope ...

“He was one of my biggest advocates and I was his biggest fan.” She sees their relationship in that between Renaissance astronomer Galileo Galilei and his oldest child, as brought to life in Jessica ...