In January 1610, Galileo Galilei, using a newly improved telescope with 20x magnification, observed four celestial bodies orbiting Jupiter, initially appearing as stars. These bodies, later named Io, ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

Instruments of revolution can appear deceivingly simple. With a bit of wood, copper wire and paper, Galileo fashioned a telescope that opened the skies for discovery. The telescope had a magnifying ...

Saturn, the jewel of the solar system, has returned to the night sky. The ringed planet rises in the east just as the sun ...

For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope ...

A close conjunction of the waning crescent Moon (approximately 26% illuminated) and Jupiter occurred around 7 A.M. EDT, observable in the eastern sky before sunrise, with the Moon positioned between ...

Scientist celebrated today for changing our view of the universe. Aug. 25, 2009 — -- Who invented the telescope? Not Galileo. Who first pointed it at the heavens? Again, it wasn't Galileo. So ...

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Life!) - A three-foot telescope used by the Italian astronomer Galileo, whose discoveries revolutionized astronomy, is the main attraction at an exhibition at the Franklin ...

From the first stone tools to sea-faring ships to the internet, technology has been at the heart of human exploration and discovery. But to starting exploring space, the final frontier, humans first ...

You'd be expecting me to start with Galileo here, right? Well, no. Galileo was the first to <em>use</em> a telescope to make astronomical discoveries, but he was ...

Paris: Wind the clock back 400 years and follow in the footsteps of a giant — experience now just what first amazed Galileo in 1609! The latest Cornerstone project of the International Year of ...