Dr. Wilhelmus (Will) van der Veen of Edison, director of the Science Education Institute at the New Jersey Astronomy Center, has received the 2008 Thomas J. Brennan Award from the Astronomical Society ...

Slooh, a company that allows for space exploration via a network of online telescopes, has launched a homeschool astronomy program. The science lessons will include weekly webinars for students.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Smithsonian STARS— Scientists Taking Astronomy to Rural Schools— aims to bridge gaps in access to hands-on STEM learning opportunities for children in rural and tribal nation schools by providing a ...

[gocivici] threatened us with a tutorial on positional astronomy when we started reading his tutorial on a Arduino Powered Star Pointer and he delivered. We’d pick him to help us take the One Ring to ...

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, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The sun is about a million times bigger than Earth. That's a fact hundreds of people learned ...