A star projector shows stars in the night sky against an orange backdrop in the De Anza College’s Fujitsu Planetarium in Cupertino on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening, ...

Dr. Wilhelmus (Will) van der Veen of Edison, director of the Science Education Institute at the New Jersey Astronomy Center, has received the 2008 Thomas J. Brennan Award from the Astronomical Society ...

Slooh, a company that allows for space exploration via a network of online telescopes, has launched a homeschool astronomy program. The science lessons will include weekly webinars for students.

Michael Paolucci, CEO and founder of the robotic telescope company Slooh, has wondered why all schools provide students with microscopes to examine the small things in the world, but they rarely ...

WORCESTER — "The Women Who Mapped the Stars" is a play about five women astronomers at the Harvard College Observatory beginning in the late 1800s who pioneered modern astrophysics and created the ...

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DECATUR - Once upon a time, people spent their evenings outdoors, looking up at the stars. After staring at them long enough, those people began to see shapes in the stars' formations and named them.

THIS is the third of a series of text-books recently prepared by Prof. Young for use in schools and colleges of different grades. The two previous ones have already been noticed in NATURE (vol. xxxix ...

As we head into the 2024 election cycle, some lawmakers worry that artificial intelligence will be misused in political advertising. Pa. State Representative Tarik Khan is co-sponsoring a bill to ...

Astronomy Day means a chance to view objects like the sun, moon and planets through a telescope. We'll have scopes set up for safe solar viewing at the Alworth Planetarium in Duluth, Minn. from 10 ...