Few figures shine as brightly as Galileo Galilei, an Italian philosopher whose contributions to astronomy revolutionized the understanding of the stars. "Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) has always played ...

THERE are few men of science whose lives offer so much of picturesqueness and interest to the popular mind as that of Galileo. Marvelous genius though he was, he lived and did his great works among ...

Galileo Galilei, a pioneer of modern science, highlighted that understanding truths is simple after discovery. The real ...

A (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element-A for those who like their expansions) was launched, one of two demonstration ...

How do cicadas make such loud noises? Many of us were asking this question over the past weeks in the cacophonous buzz of cicadas that emerged by the millions in May and June in Maryland, Virginia and ...

Two new biographies differ over the astronomer’s view of the relationship between science and faith. A right thumb, a finger, a tooth. These were the contents of a reliquary acquired several years ago ...

Everyone is familiar with the legend of Galileo: how one of the great astronomers in history bravely stood up to the Inquisition in defense of his argument that the earth orbited the sun, rather than ...

The novel coronavirus has upended our world over the past several months, forcing people to learn how to work in entirely new ways. For scientists in particular, Isaac Newton has repeatedly been held ...

A Galileo Galilei document that has been one of the University of Michigan library's treasures turned out to be a forgery, a development that an expert on the famed 15th century Italian astronomer has ...

A prized manuscript in the University of Michigan library that was believed to have been written by the famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei is a forgery, the university said. The one-page ...