Galileo was the first to discover the moons of Jupiter. Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures / Corbis (Jupiter) / Scala / Art Resource, NY (Galileo) Inside a glass case was a plain-looking tube ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... mechanics and the strength of materials, optics and astronomy. He continued to develop, correcting earlier errors, admitting his ignorance ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

"Star Gazing" explores the life and contributions of Galileo Galilei, highlighting his groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy and the challenges he faced from the scientific community and the church.

Can scientists build a detector of near-Earth objects that would sense gravitational waves produced by any "dark" objects ...