Cruising back to the vicinity of Earth, the Galileo spacecraft is at last ready to sally forth toward its ultimate destination in 1995, the giant planet Jupiter. And despite the craft’s continuing ...

The U.S. Congress authorized new-start funding for the Jupiter Orbiter and Probe (JOP) on 19 July 1977, early in the Administration of President Jimmy Carter. When JOP development began officially on ...

Paris, 17 January 2006 – Giove-A, the first Galileo pilot satellite launched on December 28th, has transmitted its signals to the Earth stations using the Navigation Signal Generation Unit (NSGU) and ...

Planet Jupiter (WHTM) Launched in 1989, the Galileo mission to explore the planet Jupiter ended on September 21, 2003, when the probe was deliberately destroyed. It happened because of one of the ...

One of the finest and most disturbing scenes in Center Stage’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo” takes place during a masked ball at a cardinal’s home in Rome. Galileo has just been told that ...

The 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) before the Roman Inquisition is frequently cited to demonstrate that science and the Catholic Church are fundamentally at loggerheads. But, science and ...

If the skies had looked the way they do in Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo,” which just opened at Classic Stage Company, the famous Italian astronomer may never have looked up a telescope. It’s as if a ...

Sept. 17 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the European Commission's Galileo L13 mission Tuesday, successfully delivering its navigation satellite constellation to a medium-Earth ...

In 1614, when the telescope was new technology, a young man in Germany published a book filled with illustrations of the exciting new things being discovered telescopically: moons circling Jupiter, ...

Galileo was not the first man to claim the Earth orbited the sun, but he was first who could prove it. And the landmark discovery he made with his newly-built telescope changed the course of ...

Irish planetary scientists have christened a spider-like feature on Jupiter's icy moon Europa as "Damhán Alla," which ...

In the spring of 1609, an unknown professor of mathematics at the University of Padua first held a strange object, formed of a short cardboard tube with two lenses fixed at the end. He was not the ...