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

Still, even Galileo recognized the ground-based uses of telescopes. After building his first telescopes, Galileo demonstrated ...

In the final analysis, by showing that 10 heterogenous clocks across three continents could agree with each other to within a ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

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Fraunhofer researchers want to use laser communication telescope to modernize satellite infrastructure and keep pace with ...

Karen Abarca was a Los Angeles-based costume designer during her early 20s, but a trip to Death Valley inspired her to switch ...

Telescopes are fun to point around the sky, but they’re even better when you have some idea of what you’re actually looking at. Experienced sky-gazers love nothing more than w ...

IT is generally believed that Galileo, as a young lecturer on mathematics and physics at the University of Pisa, gradually became convinced of the untrustworthiness of many of the statements which ...

Telescopes allow scientists to analyse starlight passing through distant planets’ atmospheres, revealing clues about their ...