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 ...

One of the biggest mysteries in science – dark energy – doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the ...

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 ...

NASA's Juno mission has revealed that each of Io's volcanoes is likely fueled by its own magma chamber, not a global magma ocean. This conclusion was drawn from precise gravity measurements during ...