Explore the differences between Astrophysics and Astronomy to help you decide which field is a better fit for your interests ...

Astronomy does not belong off Earth. It belongs wherever the universe can be observed — and that necessarily includes the surface of the planet humans live on. Kelsey Johnson: Past President of the ...

Singer Younha’s passion for astronomy is no longer confined to just her music. The artist also established a scholarship ...

Thanks to Fink, a software package created by two CNRS engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the public about the threats space rocks pose to Earth.

The Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD), a partnership of the National Research Foundation (NRF) with the International Astronomical Union (IAU) under the Department of Science, Technology and ...

Scientists in China have developed an AI model that analyzes stellar data from different telescopes, helping astronomers combine survey data.

Indian students, although curious and fascinated by astronomy, struggle to understand the basic concepts of the subject, reveals nationwide survey covering more than 2,000 school students ...

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact ...

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Roanoke native Beth Brown took her childhood passion and endless curiosity for the world around her and manifested it into a remarkable career, where she became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D.

A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up ...