Galileo was famous for many things, including a theory that two objects, of differing mass, will fall from a common height at the same rate. While it has been said he conducted an experiment on this ...

Having failed to achieve their intended orbit following a launch in August 2014, a pair of ESA Galileo satellites are being re-tasked to test Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. More precisely, ...

Albert Einstein’s most famous work, the General Theory of Relativity, is being put to the test by two Galileo satellites, due to an accident in their flight patterns. E=Mc 2, or so we’re told. Well, ...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei provided a number of scientific insights that laid the foundation for future scientists. His investigation of the laws of motion and improvements on the telescope ...

OPINION: The work conducted by the father of modern science played a major role in developing human thinking, writes WILLIAM… OPINION:The work conducted by the father of modern science played a major ...

In 1592, over a decades’ worth of work had come to fruition for Galileo Galilei. He was now a professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, making three times his previous salary. Here, he kept ...

After attracting the ire of the Catholic Church for stating the Earth orbited the Sun, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was put on trial at the Inquisition headquarters in Rome. To avoid being ...

Two satellites constructed and launched by the European Space Agency will spend the next year testing Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which was proposed in a paper the famed German ...