The first pair of Galileo navigation satellites to launch on an Ariane 6 are scheduled to liftoff from Europe's Spaceport in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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