When Galileo Galilei aimed his telescope at Saturn in 1610, he saw what looked like ears protruding from the planet’s disk. Two years later, the “ears” (which Galileo called stars) had vanished.

Just after the turn of the 17th century, Galileo Galilei designed and built the first telescope, changing astronomy forever. Through his telescope, all of a sudden, details beyond human perception ...

Galileo Galilei, who discovered them, called them "ears." Saturn's rings have inspired countless awe-filled descriptions, but they have also eluded scientific explanation.

Saturn’s rings were also one of the first targets of Galileo Galilei’s new telescope some 400 years ago, when he revolutionized human observations of the cosmos.

Saturn's rings have fascinated scientists ever since Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei first spotted them through one of his telescopes in the 17th century. But just how the icy rings came into ...

Saturn's ring system extends up to 175,000 miles from the surface of the planet ... which were first discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610. The celestial hoops are made ...

Humanity has been staring at Saturn's rings for over 400 years, ever since Galileo Galilei first trained his homespun telescope on the mysterious system.

What we are seeing with Saturn now is likely what Galileo Galilei was seeing when he viewed Saturn with his crude telescope back in the year 1612. In that year, Saturn's rings were also nearly ...

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 ...

When were Saturn’s rings discovered? When Galileo Galilei became the first person to lay eyes on Saturn's rings in 1610, he was unsure what they were, according to the European Space Agency ...

Galileo was the first person to observe the rings of Saturn. He spent hour after hour on painstaking drawings of the Moon through its phases, observed Venus and Mars, and even made sketches of ...