The telescope began as a relatively simple device, born out of optical experimentation. It combined a series of lenses and mirrors to collect and magnify light, allowing the user to see far away ...

Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Well, any of us who ...

From the first stone tools to sea-faring ships to the internet, technology has been at the heart of human exploration and discovery. But to starting exploring space, the final frontier, humans first ...

Galileo Galilei built dozens of telescopes back in the 16th Century when he changed the world and sparked a debate between religion and science that's still raging. Only two of the instruments exist ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Though it looks like a cardboard tube that got left out in the rain, it's a priceless instrument whose owner changed the world. The mottled brown cylinder on display at The Franklin ...

GRIFFITH PARK – In 1609, a Tuscan astronomer fashioned the world’s finest telescope and aimed it at the heavens. What Galileo Galilei observed in Padua, Italy, would upend our notions of the cosmos.

In early 2009, astronomers inaugurated the celebration of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). The IYA vision is to “help the citizens of the world rediscover their place in the Universe through ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Though it looks like a cardboard tube that got left out in the rain, it’s a priceless instrument whose owner changed the world. The mottled brown cylinder on display at The ...