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 ...

Modern astronomers now have an advanced understanding of many of the objects in the night sky, and have even determined that ...

A groundbreaking study has unveiled new insights into the volcanic activity of Jupiter's moon Io, confirming it as the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Researchers from Nasa's ...

Saturn has 128 more moons than astronomers previously thought - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons ...

Apparently, it’s moving further away from the Earth each year. At an annual rate of 3.82 centimeters, the moon's creeping ...

Around 100 years later in 1610, Claudio Monteverdi (the musical equivalent of Leonardo ... In fact, he probably didn't even meet the pope, who was embroiled in the controversy with Galileo about the ...

While Io was discovered by Galileo in 1610, its volcanic activity was identified nearly 400 years later. The first traces of volcanic plumes on Io were detected in 1979 by NASA scientist Linda ...

ON a memorable evening in the year 1610 Galileo sat in the tower of his observatory in Florence, and gazed through his newly-invented “perspective glass” at Saturn, which was then regarded as ...