During the Renaissance era, the conflicting bedfellows of religion and science had clear delineations, dictated by Earth’s ...

I cover the history of science, technology, and exploration. On this night in 1609, astronomer Galileo Galilei trained his telescope on the Moon for the first time. What he saw would overturn an ...

Galileo Galilei would have been astonished. When he discovered the planet in 1610, looking through his primitive telescope, Galileo perceived Saturn's rings as two large moons, which he described ...

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15 ... Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove the Church wrong. Though he had many breakthroughs in physics ...

Galileo Galilei, though famous for his scientific ... He quickly put together a telescope and displayed it to the Venetian Senate, which was so impressed, it immediately doubled his salary.

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... And he succeeded in making a telescope of the sort familiar to everyone today who has seen an elementary book on optics.

But there are probably better ways to broach the subject than "Galileo: A Rock Musical," an odd mixture of earnestness, flash ...

"Io is simply littered with volcanoes, and we caught a few of them in action." The four biggest moons of Jupiter aren't just blurry smudges in Galileo's telescope anymore. The Italian astronomer ...

Galileo Galilei made an important discovery about Venus much later. He observed the planet not only waxing and waning through a telescope, but also appearing to change size. This showed him the ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Thursday will begin a tour of Italy, Vatican City and Saudi Arabia to speak with officials ...

I told Danny I’d really like to do a musical about Galileo,” Weiner told the Chronicle via Zoom. “I think it could be a rock musical because he’s sort of like this rebel, challenging the fabric of ...

Visconti Galileo Galilei Limited Edition pen and pen stand ... Each pen comes with a wooden case that includes a unique stand for the telescope-inspired pen, which is modeled after the astrolabes ...