Science teacher Milton Johnson received a $10,000 grant from “Jenny’s Heroes,” a foundation created by former talk show host Jenny Jones. The grant money will go toward purchasing telescopes and other ...

Brooklyn, New York (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Future Astronomers, creator of the Future Astronomers astronomy educational platform, announced today that they are launching the second phase of free programs ...

UA astronomer Don McCarthy has spent nearly all his career at the UA, and is now being rewarded for it. McCarthy has been at the UA since the 1970s, when he was a graduate student pursuing his ...

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its 2006 Education Prize to Dr. Sidney Wolff,an astronomer and former director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

April 24, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute and the Maldives Space Research Organisation (MSRO) will collaborate on astronomy research, space science education and public outreach. This ...

In 2019, the SETI Institute signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the French-based telescope company Unistellar, located in Marseille, to establish and enhance joint research, outreach and ...

Over the last ten years there has been a large increase in the number of projects using sound to represent astronomical data and concepts. Motivation for these projects includes the potential to ...

The University of North Georgia (UNG) has received a two-year STARTALK grant of more than $327,000 from the National Security Agency (NSA) to provide instruction on the Chinese language and astronomy ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded the first AAS Education Prize to Frank Drake, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa ...

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Although Galileo is well-known as the first to use the new invention of the telescope for astronomy, he was not the first astronomer. The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was born on Dec. 14, 1546, so we ...