It was against a Jesuit who had written about comets and was a manifesto for intellectual freedom in science. In 1623 his friend in Florence, Maffeo Barberini, was elected Pope and Galileo could ...

Still, Galileo did perform some ingenious experiments on gravity while at Pisa. In fact, for his approach to science, that of using math in analyzing the results of experiments, he is credited ...

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

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

In today’s Climate Classroom, we are talking to the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF). It’s a non-profit ...

Galileo played with this formula until ... on the optical axis—hence the color fringes seen in refractors. Other scientists had speculated that using mirrors rather than lenses might correct ...

GALILEO: Good morning, guys, I hope you're having a lovely day. I am Galileo Galilei, a scientist from Italy and I am the man who is making some exciting discoveries around force and I am here ...

On this date in 2002, the Galileo probe makes it's 33rd pass by the Jovian moon, Io.

Galileo Galilei – often referred to just as Galileo – is someone who often needs no introduction. An Italian astronomer, physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Galileo was a polymath who ...

The Galileo probe expanded on our knowledge of Jupiter's moon, Io, showing us just how hot and hellish the Jovian satellite could be.

This biopic is about Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons ...