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 ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most ...

They include significant holdings of works by Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler ... The Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery (AA/PG) Library is located in the new Victor Building.

A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

Other feature Jupiter’s four biggest moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, which were first seen by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in January 1610 though his homemade telescope.

The nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House, this exhibition lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery's mission to tell the American story through the ...

In January 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei spotted what he thought were four small stars tagging along with Jupiter. These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons ...

GALILEO: Good morning, guys, I hope you're having a lovely day. I am Galileo Galilei, a scientist from Italy and I am the man who is making some exciting discoveries around force and I am here ...

The new data is painting a clearer portrait of Io ... Io, first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610, is just slightly ...

SpaceX is watching the weather ahead of Tuesday's Falcon 9 launch of the European Commission's Galileo L13 mission, which ...

With the previous Galileo launch this year, SpaceX disposed of the booster, which means allowing it to drop unrecovered into the Atlantic Ocean, to allow for additional power to get the satellites ...

Get ready for a (potential) evening launch from the Space Coast. SpaceX plans to launch the next two Galileo satellites into orbit for the European Space Agency (ESA). The space company is ...