Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of ...

Galileo Galilei famously stood trial for his insistence—based on astronomical observations through his telescopes—that the Copernican model of the Solar System was correct. The Earth revolved ...

Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document ...

Galileo used them to survey the lunar surface, but he had to do it a piece at a time. The field of view was so narrow that ...

The “Galileo affair” continues to fascinate and provoke after 400 years. It was, in a way, both simple and very complicated. What was simple was its upshot: The great founder of modern science ...

Galileo didn't make it into Lord Kelvin's seminal paper on the tides. But for all his work, including his tidal theory, he secured a place in history as the first modern scientist.