Dante Alighieri imagined hell as being a hole in the Earth the shape of a giant ice cream cone. With a tip at the centre of the Earth, hell was covered by a vaulted roof that was part of the Earth's ...

Utah native Kip Thorne, who helped conceive the movie “Interstellar,” is excited about the future of gravitational wave research.

Europe’s Galileo satellite network has been almost entirely offline since Thursday, according to the European GNSS Service Center. The Galileo network of satellites is Europe’s answer to the American ...

Few figures shine as brightly as Galileo Galilei, an Italian philosopher whose contributions to astronomy revolutionized the understanding of the stars. "Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) has always played ...

Galileo's artistic skills aided his scientific understanding. His art training helped him interpret telescopic observations. Galileo's drawings were crucial to his discoveries and publications. His ...

NARRATOR: It was a time of discord in the Christian world. Threatened by the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church demanded strict adherence to its dogma, enforced by the violent threat of ...

The novel coronavirus has upended our world over the past several months, forcing people to learn how to work in entirely new ways. For scientists in particular, Isaac Newton has repeatedly been held ...

Europa’s “wall-demon” scar resembles lake stars on Earth, prompting researchers to investigate whether it indicates pockets of water beneath the moon’s frozen surface ...

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