Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

The Galileo Project at Harvard University is a group of researchers who are working to scan the entire sky and analyze the data for unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). To do that, the research team ...

The unremarkable-looking object is in fact one of the most important artifacts in the history of science: it's one of only two surviving telescopes known to have been made by Galileo Galilei ...

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of Galileo—Earth's atmosphere. Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere ...

Shortly after he began producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days, the telescope is mostly closely associated with the night sky, but it's also useful on land and ...

Galileo Project, NASA In this image of Jupiter's ... JAXA This image is from the Hubble Space Telescope and offers a glimpse of another kind of ring around Saturn, the pole-encircling rings ...

However, Galileo's telescopes suffered from high ... but that's practically table stakes when justifying a new telescope project. Where VLBI really stands out is aperture size.

Can scientists build a detector of near-Earth objects that would sense gravitational waves produced by any "dark" objects ...

But now, a new telescope in Chile claiming to be the 'world's biggest eye on the sky' could completely transform the way we ...