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 ...

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...

A leap into deep space Francouis Pretorius The Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) is set to position Namibia at the forefront of astronomical research, particularly in the study of black holes and high ...

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 ...

At the unexpected intersection of astronomy and animation is Rodney Levendosky, a senior majoring in animation and visual effects at New Mexico State University. His work with Astronomy Assistant ...

The latest news and top stories on Hong Kong Space Museum. A prominent Hong Kong based public astronomy and space science museum, the Hong Kong Space Museum is dedicated to popularising astronomy and ...

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 ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...