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

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

Once described as the most important telescope in history after the original built by Galileo, the Hubble Space Telescope has offered humanity an unrivalled window into the stars around us.

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

Researchers from the Juno mission have finally solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over four decades.

These evenings, when it is clear, there is a fairly bright, dull yellow "star" in the southern sky. It is not actually a star ...

Galileo gave very few details of his observing ... The drive was then on to build bigger and more powerful telescopes with greater magnification. It was soon realized that what was to become ...

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