Galileo Galilei is arguably the most important scientist to ever live. He perfected the first telescopes, turned them toward ...

PhotoPhoto of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha light. The giant planet Jupiter, whose large moons Galileo discovered with his "trouble-making" telescope, is more than 5 times farther from the Sun than ...

Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...

Shortly after he began producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days, the telescope is mostly closely associated with the night sky, but it's also useful on land and ...

Imagine standing alone against an empire. That's what Galileo did when he pointed his telescope at the heavens and declared that Earth wasn't the centre of the universe. The Moon wasn't a perfect ...