Apparently, light travels faster than sound. Apologies to Galileo Galilei, but the Italian clearly never went to Portugal.

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

Manarola is a small town in Italy's Cinque Terre region - and it's easy to see why it is gaining a reputation as one of the ...

Tonight at 21:00 the classic Sala Galileo Galilei, in the neighbourhood of Chamberí, will host a rare cultural treat as ...

Sunspots are the most striking phenomenon of the solar magnetic field. After the invention of the telescope early in the 17th century, the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was the first to routinely ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

Almost 150 people gathered at the Old Sturbridge Village common on the Fourth of July to celebrate becoming U.S. citizens, ...

Here’s a look at the life of renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astronomer and mathematician, Stephen Hawking. Personal Birth date: January 8, 1942 Death date: March 14, 2018 Birth place: ...

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

Materials science might seem very technical, but as a scientific discipline, it has led to many shifts in society over the past few centuries.

Budget airline Ryanair has cancelled more than 170 flights because of French air traffic control strikes, affecting more than ...

And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...