A flash of high-energy light from deep space has forced astronomers to rethink what they thought they knew about the most ...

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

The Hogwarts Castle Astronomy Table will become available as you progress through the main story. Like other collectibles within the castle, you'll have to go and look for them. Once you find it and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That's the announcement heard on deck following a series of bells as Cmdr. A.J. Franz steps aboard the U.S.S. Jefferson City, a 7,000-ton Los Angeles Class submarine that's named after the Missouri ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch footage of the Sun unleashing an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI ...