“It was a mistake,” the monk said quietly. One of my students had stopped the brown-cloaked Dominican as he strode across the plaza of the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. We had just ...

After eight years orbiting Jupiter, NASA's Galileo space probe will end its long mission, during the wee hours of Monday morning, by plunging through the Jovian cloud tops and smashing into the giant ...

Few figures shine as brightly as Galileo Galilei, an Italian philosopher whose contributions to astronomy revolutionized the understanding of the stars. "Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) has always played ...

So here’s a fine howdy-do for Galileo Galilei: Exactly one day—one flipping day—after the great man’s 450th birthday, on Feb. 15, 2014, a study by the National Science Foundation (NSF) revealed that ...

The classic image of Galileo Galilei has the 16th century Italian scientist dropping two balls of differing weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and observing them hitting the ground at the same ...

Alex Chadwick talks Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday, about new examinations of the theories of Galileo and Isaac Newton relating to gravity. This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex ...

In August, we reported that a letter presumably written by Galileo Galilei—part of the collection of the University of Michigan's library—was actually a forgery, along with a similar document in the ...