Europa was first discovered in 1610 by Florentine astronomer, physicist, and engineer Galileo Galilei. Using a homemade ...

Then, drawing on his skills as a professor of ... Among them was the discovery of four moons orbiting Jupiter. To Galileo, the moons proved that not everything in space circled the Earth, and ...

The JUpiter ICy moon Explorer, or Juice for short, will make a series of fly-bys around two other Galilean moons ... are going to take our time before we draw any scientific conclusions, but ...

NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo spacecraft ...

Galileo was the first person to observe the rings of Saturn. He spent hour after hour on painstaking drawings of the Moon ...

Io, first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 ... else in the solar system. The rocky moon’s surface is covered with ...

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

You'd just need to find a bathtub big enough… When polymath Galileo ... moons on either side. Not knowing he was seeing a planet with rings, the stumped astronomer entered a small drawing ...

as people thought Although Galileo became renowned for these discoveries, it was actually English astronomer Thomas Harriot who first drew the Moon from his telescope observations, on 26 July 1609.

Love rarely gets the credit it deserves for the advancement of science. Nor, for that matter, does hatred, greed, envy or any ...

The largest furrow system is present across Galileo and ... effect it had on the moon.” First, Dr. Hirata realized that the purported location of the impact is almost precisely on the meridian ...

When Galileo made his astonishing discovery of mountains on the moon, his telescope didn’t ... but also breadth of experience in painting and drawing. Thanks to artistic training in a technique ...