Explore Galileo Galilei's life, discoveries, controversies and legacy in astronomy. A journey through Renaissance intellect and scientific revolution.

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

He was born in Tuscany, Italy in 1564, when parents frequently provided their sons with personal names inspired by their traditional family identifiers. In fact, Galileo’s forebearers actually used ...

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Philip Glass' rarely performed work "Galileo Galilei" is different from a lot of operas: it's short, only has a 13-piece orchestra and ends at the beginning of Galileo's career.

For nearly a century, the library at the University of Michigan had proudly displayed the so-called "Galileo manuscript" — a document believed to be written by the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei.

American singer, songwriter and dance producer Porter Robinson, from North Carolina, is a huge fan of Galileo Galilei, a rock band that hails from Japan‘s Hokkaido region, and the tremendous ...