Galileo is one of the most famous scientists ever ... led him to realize that the forms he observed on the moon were craters and mountains. In short, he realized that the moon had a texture, in ...

In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have traveled to distant locations — Antarctica and its ice sheets, Chile and ...

To learn about the potential for life in a hidden ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa, NASA will hunt for plumes and "crop circles ...

Even with relatively limited magnification, Galileo revealed the Moon's mountainous peaks, low valleys, and craters. Additionally, Galileo observed Jupiter and noted the presence of a few ...

In the aftermath of hurricane winds and rains, under clear conditions in Cape Canaveral, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasted ...

That rules out the southern crater with the gullies on its rim and ... You can't help thinking that Galileo, arguably the first planetary scientist, would have approved. Before him, doctrine ...

NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane ...

They form a kind of dictionary of great astronomers. There are craters called Halley, Galileo and Copernicus, but among them there's an astronomer whose name I certainly didn't recognise.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, ...