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.

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...

On December 3, Drexel University’s Department of Physics and the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships hosted an Astronomy Night for the entire Drexel community. This event continues a ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

Knox students traveled to southern Arizona over spring break to help maintain the Robert L. Mutel Telescope and gain hands-on ...

Due to long-term and systemic issues leading to the consistent exclusion of African Americans in physics and astronomy, a task force is recommending sweeping changes and calling for awareness into the ...

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what ...

Ithacans can now enjoy a drink alongside space science education thanks to the efforts of five graduate students in Cornell’s astronomy department. The students are spearheading an “Astronomy on Tap” ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Scholars widely agree that astronomy is a gateway science – that it inspires a core ...