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 ...
The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was ...
We often associate the birth of modern science with Galileo Galilei, who sought to prove Copernicus's cosmology empirically with his telescopes. However, the scientific revolution did not begin at the ...
The first mercury barometer was created in the 1600s by an Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli. was ...
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 ...
Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...
Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.