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

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

Telescope, sire of last season's Supreme Novices' Hurdle victor Slade Steel, will stand at Foxwood Farm in County Cork for ...

A new radio telescope on the top of Germany's Zugspitze mountain will help unravel the secrets of the universe. The project ...

Galaxy clusters—the big cities of the universe—are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth ...

NASA’s Juno mission uncovers the true source of Io’s volcanic activity, revealing localized magma chambers instead of a ...

The original structure provided the optimal setting for Galileo Galilei's presentation of the telescope; it also served as a stage for tight rope walkers who would humor the doge (the highest ...

Scientists with the Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io are each likely powered ...

NASA reveals new information. Thanks to the Juno probe mission, a mystery about Jupiter's moon Io that lasted over 40 years ...

The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was ...

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