April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Modern astronomers now have an advanced understanding of many of the objects in the night sky, and have even determined that the Solar System is filled with oceans of liquid water ...

The original structure provided the optimal setting for Galileo Galilei's presentation of the telescope; it also served as a stage for tight rope walkers who would humor the doge (the highest ...

Pope Francis becomes only the seventh Holy Father to be laid to rest at the Papal Basilica of St Mary Major in Rome.

Many others received other forms of incarceration. Galileo Galilei, for his study in astronomy and invention of the telescope, was “found vehemently suspect for heresy.” Under Pope Urban VIII ...