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.

Smithsonian STARS— Scientists Taking Astronomy to Rural Schools— aims to bridge gaps in access to hands-on STEM learning opportunities for children in rural and tribal nation schools by providing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every other Monday at 9 a.m., Don Hladiuk joins a Zoom call with a group of 30 to 45 students. They are eager to learn about space ...

Tune in Thursday (March 19) at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Slooh astronomers will livestream a free ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The sun is about a million times bigger than Earth. That's a fact hundreds of people learned ...

CU students spent Tuesday at Frederick High School, teaching astronomy lessons and leading presentations in an inflatable planetarium. They covered astrobiology, black holes and how scientists find ...

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 ...