Astronomy studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...

Rochester Institute of Technology graduate student Valerie Rapson was invited to join the American Astronomical Society Astronomy Ambassador program. Rapson, a resident of Greece, N.Y., is a Ph.D.

Kip Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was Interstellar's science advisor. The movie explores scientific concepts like wormholes and time dilation. Interstellar depicts a space mission searching ...

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new image of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) announced the inauguration of the Hong Kong Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (HKIAA ...

NSF Sponsors Science Communicators’ Conference and Launches Complementary Web Site: Eyes on the Sky Eyes on the Sky tells the story of NSF’s role in supporting ground-based astronomy and together with ...

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First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

The growing interest in astronomy in southeastern Manitoba has made its way to Steinbach, where a local Grade 10 student has ...