The first publication by Galileo Galilei has set a new auction record for the celebrated astronomer, selling for $1.5 million ...

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

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 ...

The document contains drafts that refer to Galileo's presentation of a new telescope to the Doge of Venice on August 24, 1609 and his observations of Jupiter using a telescope in January 1610.

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light across space.

Although commonly interpreted as a battle between science and religion, Galileo’s condemnation by the Catholic Church was more complex. It also involved a book retracted because of a pandemic ...

SoFi, the San Francisco fintech company whose products range from student loans to cryptocurrency trading, is buying Salt Lake City payments firm Galileo for $1.2 billion in stock and cash ...

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.