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

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian ...

Galileo Galilei pointed a telescope toward celestial bodies, while Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered microbial life with a microscope. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution ...

Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

Materials science might seem very technical, but as a scientific discipline, it has led to many shifts in society over the ...

In “Our Moon,” Rebecca Boyle elucidates how Earth’s closest neighbor makes us what — and who — we are. By Katrina Miller The unmasking of a fake Galileo manuscript this summer brought ...

In Bucktown, Trap Door Theatre’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo is brave, chaotic, and full of spectacle. Brecht’s 1938 play (with the full name Life of Galileo), written originally in German ...

Galileo's drawing of the solar system. Florence, 1611. The exhibit Galileo and His Ingenious Discoveries, is previewed at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics on Feb. 4. The drawings ...

Galileo services continue to expand with many new capabilities that are unique with respect to other GNSS.

Artemisia Gentileschi’s friendship with the scientist Galileo Galilei may have inspired two of her major artworks.