Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 30, 1610, the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first to observe rings around the planet Saturn. Shortly after ...

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 ...

In 1610, Galileo Galilei trained his rudimentary telescope on Saturn and was dazzled by a celestial spectacle that he likened to "arms." Fast forward to the present day, and these iconic rings have ...

Saturn’s beautiful rings form a striking feature, cutting across this image of two of the planet’s most intriguing moons. The rings have been a source of mystery since their discovery in 1610 by ...

Nothing else in the Solar System is quite like Saturn. At its poles, a terrible storm rages, a perfect hexagon twenty thousand miles wide with raindrops of molten diamond, flung by 300-mph winds.

I have always been fascinated by the discoveries and theories of early astronomers, before technology. They used mathematics, physics and observations to gain an understanding of the cosmos. Without a ...