The first publication by Galileo Galilei has set a new auction record for the celebrated astronomer, selling for $1.5 million ...

Sunspots are the most striking phenomenon of the solar magnetic field. After the invention of the telescope early in the 17th ...

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And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of the big star in our solar system.

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects. Galileo Galilei quickly improved the designs and became the first to ...

The effect challenged the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church but led to the birth of modern astronomy.</p> <p>Galileo, who was not the first to create a telescope, improved his "optick tube ...

Humanity’s need to track the Moon's changing phases and motions is ancient. Mammoth hunters used the Moon as a timekeeper, carving crescent-shaped notches into bone and tusk. Sumerian astronomers ...

Galileo Galilei is arguably the most important scientist to ever live. He perfected the first telescopes, turned them toward the Universe and what he discovered changed the course of history ...