Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the ...

Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who had arrived at Mount Wilson a few years before Hubble, applied Leavitt’s technique to his own observations. By mapping Cepheids in the ball-shaped agglomerations of ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick enjoys a fresh delivery of orange and other fruit on the International Space Station during ...

Hunt said that, in 1979, while still in high school, he joined the Marine Corps on a delayed-entry program for recruits who were too young to qualify. He claims that an administrative error led to an ...

Blaze of Glory. In 1967, Bell Burnell was working with Anthony Hewish, an astronomer at Cambridge who wanted to find more quasars, which are the distant, extremely bright cores of massive galaxies.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient astronomer Hipparchus. This colored version of a 19th-century ...

The largest digital camera ever built released its first glamour shots of the universe Monday — including colorful nebulas, stars and galaxies. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...

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It will provide students with a broad foundational background in astronomy in preparation for graduate studies in astronomy or astrophysics. The minor is interdisciplinary and offered jointly by the ...