Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they ...

The Very Large Telescope is one of the most powerful observatories ever built yet many of its most important discoveries ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

NASA’s 1986 Challenger mission was intended to inspire students to consider a future in space. The crew’s family is ...

St. Charles branch of the American Association of University Women welcomes Michelle Nichols, an Astro Educator who will share her program about women involved with the ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

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, ...

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 and astronomy, which Hladiuk is more than willing to talk about.

On Episode 195 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Gerry Griffin, former Apollo Flight Director and ...

Angela West has spent three years of her 19-year teaching career at Westview Elementary School, where she teaches the fifth ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took ...

Embarking on a spur of the moment astronomy lesson, Musk explained that the sun makes up some 99.8% of mass of the solar system, and that Jupiter, the biggest planet, is just kind of a rounding error ...