The Galileo Project at Harvard University is a group of researchers who are working to scan the entire sky and analyze the ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and planets beyond our solar system. Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, known as the father of ...

On April 23, NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3 ... “In 1608, he wrote a letter to his friend Galileo Galilei: ‘Provide ships or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes ...

NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter ... Saturn is practically a solar system unto itself. Pluto may not count as a planet anymore, but it has its own mission: NASA's New Horizons, now en route ...

"Galileo's work with the telescope unleashed the notion that ours is a sun-centered solar system and not an Earth-centered solar system," says Pitts. In other words, from that ugly old cylinder ...

Galileo Galilei made an important discovery ... and helped him gather evidence for one of the most fundamental theories about our Solar System (which we will come onto a bit later).

The vastness of our Solar System and the distances involved is ... DALLASIt's only when the big guns Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler came along that our understanding shifted to a heliocentric ...