The drama of Galileo's trial by the Inquisition in 1633 has cast him as a renegade astronomer who scoffed at the Bible and drew fire from a Church blind to reason. Indeed, the myth of the martyred ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...

When he was 28 years old, Galileo became a professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he taught geometry, mechanics and astronomy. But many of his teachings went against the ...

In Jessica Dickey's play "Searching for Galileo's Daughter," an American writer goes to Florence in Italy to study the ...

Galileo has a special kind of versatility. You’ll feel equally comfortable dropping by for a drink on your own, with your boss or a date, or with the whole gang on a bachelorette weekend. Better ...

Still others mocked Harris, who chairs the National Space Council, as President Biden’s “space czar” and “Galileo Harris,” ...

A rare group of books featuring volumes by Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei that were collected by the late astronomer—and eclipse chaser—Jay Pasachoff is coming to the ...

The latest analysis of data from the Galileo probe reveals surprising clues about Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons. These ...