Saturn’s iconic rings will temporarily vanish due to a natural phenomenon known as a ring-plane crossing. Ring-plane ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

January 13 is also the World Day Against Depression. It is an annual event dedicated to raising awareness of depression as a ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Absent any storms, planets like Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn will shine brightly in the night sky on the black moons. We’ll get a season black moon in August and the next monthly black moon ...

On Jan. 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved ... By Jan. 15, Galileo correctly concluded that he had discovered four moons orbiting around Jupiter, providing ...

Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei died. Their death and birth ... but pockmarked with craters. Jupiter had its own moons, four of them (now called the Galilean Moons), ...

Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his ...

Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei died. Their death and birth, exactly 300 years apart on January 8, link two scientific pioneers who turned our understanding of the ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope ... Europa and Ganymede became known as the Galilean moons of Jupiter.