Shortly after he began producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days, the telescope is mostly closely associated with the night sky, but it's also useful on land and ...

Indeed, a couple of times, the power of musical theater breathes life into Galileo’s story. When his new telescope finally works, celestial chords mark the occasion with a zing. Jason H.

Imagine standing alone against an empire. That's what Galileo did when he pointed his telescope at the heavens and declared that Earth wasn't the centre of the universe. The Moon wasn't a perfect ...

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.