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 ...

For thousands of years we assumed the earth was the center of the universe. When Galileo advanced the proposition that the ...

Surrey NanoSystems has joined forces with scientists at the University of Surrey, led by astrophysicist Dr Noelia Noel, to ...

In the late 1500s, Florentine astronomer, physicist, and engineer Galileo Galilei theorized that mass does not affect gravitational pull, contradicting Aristotle. Galilei believed that all things fall ...

The telescope and its magnifying power changed astronomy forever. Galileo's telescope allowed him to magnify the planets, just points of light to the unaided eye, into bright discs covered in ...

Harvard University professor Avi Loeb leads “The Galileo Project,” which seeks to find direct evidence of extraterrestrial life and technology rather than asking governments for what they have ...