On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei turned his self-built telescope, which he had recently made improvements to, towards Jupiter ...

Along with countering the geocentric system, Galileo demonstrated that our Moon was not a perfect sphere, as this had also been a long-standing belief. He was the first to deduce the Moon had craters, ...

Greetings everyone! We have an unusual sky event this month to start off the new year. On Thursday, 29th of January, there will be a lunar occultation of El Nath, ...

When Galileo Galilei turned his telescope to Jupiter in 1610, he uncovered the planet’s four large moons, as well as a new vision of the cosmos. Not everything had to orbit Earth. NASA’s first ...

NASA's Galileo space probe, which revolutionised scientists' understanding of Jupiter and its moons, has made its final transmission as the US space agency sent it plunging to destruction in the ...

NASA's Galileo space probe, which revolutionised scientists' understanding of Jupiter and its moons, made its last transmissions early this morning and then disintegated spectacularly in Jupiter's ...

More than 400 years after Galileo Galilei discovered the first of Jupiter's moons, astronomers have found a dozen more — including one they've dubbed "oddball" — orbiting the planet. That brings the ...