With uncertainty surrounding program funding, federal cuts and state budget shortfalls, some University of Washington ...

Eleven faculty members are receiving support for their work through this year’s Hellman Fellowships, and it comes right when ...

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the ...

A 20-year-old planetarium, never used before, rediscovered by accident, now helps students explore constellations from new perspectives.

The New Rochelle High School planetarium offers the unique opportunity for students and the public alike to be transported to another world. Completed in 1970, the space has been a gateway for many ...

Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, astronomy and physics Prof. Michael Smutko could see the Milky Way alongside “hundreds and hundreds” of stars above him every night. “(Space) was just ...

Astronomy professor Chris Impey's MOOC, or Massive Online Open Course, has already signed up more than 1,000 students and it recently got a shout-out from Sports Illustrated, which listed "free online ...

Disclaimer: Zahra Schenck is a former Diamondback copy editor. Senior economics major Zahra Schenck needed a science credit that wouldn’t tank her GPA. With graduation looming, she was in search of a ...

Students can now reach for the stars, literally, through the new astronomy major at the University of North Carolina at Asheville that provides new classes and technological advancements. “This new ...

BAR HARBOR — Bar Harbor Whale Watch Company will again be offering Acadia Night Sky cruises featuring Maine astronomer Charlie Sawyer. The night sky boat cruises will take place on Sept. 18, 19 and 20 ...

NORTH MANKATO — Astronomy buff Mike Lynch likes to tell people to “come out and make the stars your old friends, which is what they really are for me.” Eagan resident Lynch is hosting a star watch ...