But the nature of Saturn eluded him. Writing for his scientific colleagues, Galileo encoded a kind of academic teaser for his discovery of Saturn with the anagram ...

In 1610, Galileo Galilei was the first to observe the rings, though his telescope was too crude to identify them as actual rings. He described them as "Saturn's ears" since they looked like two ...

A closer look at Saturn's rings. You read that correctly, Allatius believed that Galileo had discovered Jesus’ foreskin. Luckily, the story doesn’t end there. Forty-five years after Galileo ...

Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo's time in the 17th century.

Galileo never learned what they were, but today school children know about the beautiful set of rings which orbit Saturn’s equator.

If he had sat in mission control alongside the scientists in charge of the Cassini spacecraft when it made its climactic entry into Saturn's orbit, Galileo Galilei would have been astonished. When ...

ON a memorable evening in the year 1610 Galileo sat in the tower of his observatory in Florence, and gazed through his newly-invented “perspective glass” at Saturn, which was then regarded as ...

Galileo was the first robotic probe to collide with a gas giant; Cassini will be the second. Cassini’s final marching orders outlined a grand finale of 22 orbits of Saturn.

They were spotted by Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago, in 1610. Saturn’s first known moon, Titan, was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens 45 years later.

Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky to create a single “Christmas star” Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century Astronomers ...

Unsatisfied with the prima facie idea that Saturn simply was that shape, Galileo reasoned that Saturn might have a moon or moons, just like Earth has Luna.