Eastern Michigan University astronomy professor Tom Kasper discusses his teaching, career path, technology developments in ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

A team of Johns Hopkins researchers has developed a cutting-edge data science approach capable of matching observations of celestial objects taken across multiple telescope surveys, overcoming a ...

You’ve likely heard both terms – astronomy and astrology – used when we talk about the sky, stars, and planets. But did you know they are not the same and are completely different sciences? In this ...

Two astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., Dr. Marc Postman and Dr. Ken Sembach, have been selected among 19 science teams to conduct year-long studies of new ...

NASA has selected 19 science teams to conduct yearlong studies of new concepts for its next generation of major observatories. The studies will help NASA make decisions about how it explores the ...

In the clear skies of the Chilean desert, astronomers used to have a perfect view of the universe. They could trace the faint glow of galaxies billions of light-years away or hunt for brief flashes of ...

What is a quasi-moon? Is it a moon? Is it an asteroid? Like a lot of people, Clayton Chilcutt had never heard of this kind of space rock before the introductory astronomy course he took last year at ...

The Heising-Simons Foundation announced the inaugural class of 51 Pegasi b Fellows, named for the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star. Songhu Wang, a postdoctoral research scientist in ...

Astronomy enthusiasts are my kinda people. Like me, they love all sorts of science, and science fiction, too — particularly films that lead us into a dystopian, mysterious, explorative future we can’t ...