Source: NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" This resource was adapted from NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens." In 1610, when Galileo first pointed his newly built telescope toward the sky, ...

Every wonder what the sky looked like hundreds of years ago? Where the planets were? We know that the constellations change so slowly that even if you time-traveled King Tut out of ancient Egypt into ...

As the citizens of Padua, Italy, watched the Sun set on the evening of Jan. 7, 1610, none of them could have known that somewhere in their beautiful city, standing on a balcony high above them, a man ...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – NASA’s aging Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere yesterday, bringing a deliberately fiery conclusion to a 14-year, $1.5 billion exploration of the ...

While Galileo's observations killed off the old model, we would need to wait centuries for conclusive evidence that Earth ...

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft uncovered violent conditions inside Jupiter before its mission ended in the giant planet.

HAMBURG (dpa) – After the most successful interplanetary research mission in history, the German-American space craft Galileo has now been put on course for a crash landing with the planet it has been ...

The case for a giant plume of water vapor wafting from Jupiter's potentially life-supporting moon Europa just got a lot stronger. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted tantalizing signs of such a ...

At 3:39 ET, the Galileo spacecraft will commit a sort of celestial suicide — literally burning up as it streaks toward the surface of the planet Jupiter. It's the end of a mission that took man one ...

A review of data captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it orbited Jupiter in the 1990s indicates it likely flew through a plume of water vapor spewing from cracks in the surface of the moon Europa, ...

NASA crashed the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter to save Europa. Discover the impossible secrets revealed during its hellish ...