She was kind of a Rock Star Nun' — 4th Wall to stage 'Searching for Galileo's Daughter' at Museum of Worcester ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

But across his long career, nothing beats the time he spent in a Florentine library where he handled some of the original observing notes written by Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer who ...

The film discusses Galileo's contributions to the laws of motion and gravitation, emphasizing that all objects fall at the same rate regardless of their weight. It recounts the legend of Galileo ...

Saturn’s iconic rings will seem to vanish on March 23, 2025, as the planet’s tilt aligns perfectly with Earth. This ...

In fact, data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft back in 2017 revealed it's expected to actually take 100 million years ...