While space tourism is gaining momentum, it remains available only to the wealthy, including these celebrities who have been to outer space.

Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be imbued with ...

Changing his name is one of the first actions the new pope takes, and can play a hugely symbolic role in setting the tone for ...

Angela Hertz, Executive Director of La Scuola d'Italia Galileo Galilei, has led efforts to purchase and repurpose the church, envisioning it as a hub for education and cultural heritage.Hertz met ...

Established in 1936 by Pope Pius XI, the academy traces its history to a 1603 effort touted as the world's first exclusively ...

This seemed to be incompatible with a fact understood since investigations by Galileo Galilei in the seventeenth century: that velocity is a relative quantity. Why even physicists still don’t ...

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has a storied history, with past members including the famous Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who was part of the academy’s early foundations. The role ...

The enormous stellar beehive is thought to be 600 - 700 million years old, and was initially mistaken as a nebula by the famed astronomer Galileo Galilei when he observed it in the early 1600s.

Galileo Galilei was born in Italy in the 16th Century. He explored gravity by dropping objects off the Leaning Tower of Pisa in 1589. His experiment proved that despite the different size or weight of ...

Well, it depends on whom you ask. When faced with Galileo Galilei's heretical concept of Earth not being the centre of the ...