Galileo was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. This was the second time that he was ...

Popular history recounts Galileo’s 17th Century battle with Catholic leaders in stark terms: Galileo, good. Church, bad. Legend has it that the trial of the noted astronomer in 1633 was based on ...

In one of the more curious moments in the Republican debate Wednesday night, Gov. Rick Perry invoked 17th-century science in discussing his doubts about climate change. He cited the astronomer and ...

On Feb. 13, 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome and was detained by the Inquisition for trial. In 1885 Elizabeth Wallace, who would become the nation’s first lady as Bess Truman, ...

During his lifetime, Galileo Galilei was known for inventing the telescope. But it was his other scientific discoveries, specifically his scientific evidence in favor of a heliocentric view of the ...

The Galileo case is often seen starkly as science's first decisive blow against not only faith but also the power of the Roman Catholic Church. It has never been quite that simple, though. Galileo was ...