The first publication by Galileo Galilei has set a new auction record for the celebrated astronomer, selling for $1.5 million ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

Often described as a polymath, Galileo also made significant contributions to the study of gravity, free fall, and invented the thermoscope, as well as military compasses. 7. Louis Pasteur ...

Artemisia Gentileschi’s friendship with the scientist Galileo Galilei may have inspired two of her major artworks.