On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 ...

A (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element-A for those who like their expansions) was launched, one of two demonstration ...

The first pair of Galileo navigation satellites to launch on an Ariane 6 lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French ...

Delays in the development of Ariane 6, part of a broader European “launcher crisis,” forced the European Commission to turn ...

Europe’s Ariane 6 successfully launched two Galileo satellites from Kourou, strengthening the EU’s navigation constellation ...

The European launch vehicle Ariane 6 has successfully completed its fifth launch. For the first time, it transported two ...

Europe has given fresh momentum to its Galileo navigation system following the successful Dec. 17 launch of two new ...

We got “Galileo hate mail” here at the Vatican’s astronomical observatory. It was funny — and not funny. It originated, and originates, in respectable places. And it speaks to the broader problem of ...

Europe has taken significant steps in its space capability and strategic resilience with the successful launch of two Galileo ...

Galileo Galilei, though famous for his scientific achievements in astronomy, mathematics, and physics, and infamous for his controversy with the church was, in fact, a devout Christian who saw not a ...

Four hundred years ago this month, Galileo was in Rome, trying to pick up the pieces of the Catholic Church's recent declaration that Copernican astronomy was contrary to scripture and not open for ...

Galileo Galilei famously stood trial for his insistence—based on astronomical observations through his telescopes—that the Copernican model of the Solar System was correct. The Earth revolved around ...