Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

Galileo used an inclined plane to determine the rate of acceleration due to Earth's gravity. In one experiment, he changed the pitch of the plane, but not its height.

The Church believed Earth was the centre of the universe, but Galileo would eventually prove otherwise. Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove the ...

The terrific astronomical trio of Copernicus, Isaac Newton and Galileo explain how they each came to their universal scientific conclusions (including that the Earth goes round the Sun ...

To Galileo, the moons proved that not everything in space circled the Earth, and therefore our planet was not the absolute center of the universe, as the Church maintained the Bible had it.

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of Galileo—Earth's atmosphere. Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere ...

Imagine standing alone against an empire. That's what Galileo did when he pointed his telescope at the heavens and declared that Earth wasn't the centre of the universe. The Moon wasn't a perfect ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is healthy on its way to the moon, and even witnessed a solar eclipse from space when Earth passed in front of the sun as seen from the spacecraft.

Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him in conflict ...