University of Chicago astronomy and astrophysics professor Donald G. York​, who is credited with pioneering contributions to ...

"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used ...

The University of Leeds has been part of a pioneering project teaching the Muslim practise of moonsighting. Moonsighters ...

Pandora, the latest in a long portfolio of University of Arizona's space science missions, has cleared its last major ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

Astrophysicist Thomas Bensby is an observational astronomer of stars and the director of graduate studies at Lund University’s department of physics. Thomas uses spectroscopy, a technique used to ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, the night sky has been one of humanity’s greatest mysteries and a prevalent source of curiosity. Even today, as scientists shoot countless satellites, telescopes and space ...

This summer, students at the University of Denver participated in the collaborative and innovative course, “Ways of Seeing & Sensing,” at the Kennedy Mountain Campus (KMC). The curriculum, jointly ...

On the night of Oct. 27, 1965, a new 16-inch telescope situated in a new observatory on the campus of Colorado State University drew its very first light from its first observed object, the planet ...