John Steele Gordon on “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party” by Edward Dolnick.

The first mercury barometer was created in the 1600s by an Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli. was ...

German astronomer Simon Marius is best remembered for his disputes with Galileo Galilei over priority for discovering Jupiter ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

Researchers from the Juno mission have finally solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over four decades.

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Galileo Galilei was an outstanding mathematician ... He quickly figured out the workings of the invention and built his own ...

Nearly 75 children and adults who had reached the Kerala State Science and Technology Museum (KSSTM) at PMG here to see the ...

Weather permitting, Jupiter will not only be brighter than most other stars and planets in the evening sky, but will also be ...

If conditions are clear, anyone with a pair of binoculars or a telescope may even be able ... moons" were named after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who is thought to have discovered them ...

This dual nature of the telescope dates back to its inception; after inventing his, Galileo wrote to the ruler of Venice about its ability to spy enemy ships. He also vowed to keep the device a ...