UPI The experiment will send high-flying planes to release sulfate particles into the stratosphere, near the lower atmosphere, which would then prevent some of the sun’s rays from reaching the ...

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 ...

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 used an inclined plane to determine the rate of acceleration due to Earth's gravity. In one experiment, he changed the pitch of the plane, but not its height.

NASA tracks GPS signals from the Moon for the first time, setting new records and paving the way for autonomous space ...

The signal was part of the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE ... from two satellites in the GNSS constellation (GPS and Galileo) on the lunar surface. While that alone is an impressive ...

Bye-ee! This vlog style film recreates a famous experiment in which Galileo, an Italian scientist, dropped two objects from the Leaning tower of Pisa in 1589. He explains that he did the ...

Gravity is one example, to which [Galileo]’s inclined planes and balls ... By performing the experiment in a dark room with adapted eyes, or by using an opaque tube to block out stray light ...