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

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

To many, no doubt, her genetic contribution is by now too attenuated to merit attention. At the very least, however, it must ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have come to Windsor Castle to see the queen’s collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings. Outside the towering ... to “construct glasses to see the moon larger” and “describe the cause ...

ON a memorable evening in the year 1610 Galileo sat in the tower of his observatory ... shadow cast by the rings on the planet. A very fine drawing of the shadow as observed in 1856 was made ...

September 22nd marks the Autumnal Equinox, when the Sun moves south of the equator, and our nights begin to draw in ... 2.4. The gibbous moon will be above the planet on the 23rd. Use binoculars to ...

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

Jupiter’s largest moons, known as the Galilean moons, are known not only for their size but for their unique features. Discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, these moons—Ganymede, Callisto ...

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