The New Rochelle High School planetarium offers the unique opportunity for students and the public alike to be transported to another world. Completed in 1970, the space has been a gateway for many ...

New Rochelle High School Planetarium Director Bruce Zeller talks to students during a class at the school's planetarium Nov.

A new flare of the highest class X was recorded on the Sun, which became the second in two weeks. This was reported by the ...

MOSCOW, November 29. /TASS/. Five flares of the penultimate power class were recorded on the Sun on November 29, the E. K. Fedorov Institute of Applied Geophysics said in a statement. At about one ...

At the unexpected intersection of astronomy and animation is Rodney Levendosky, a senior majoring in animation and visual effects at New Mexico State University. His work with Astronomy Assistant ...

Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, astronomy and physics Prof. Michael Smutko could see the Milky Way alongside ...

Students in Dutch Fork High School’s astronomy classes got a rare opportunity when NASA Ambassador Larry “Sunspot” Metcalf ...

Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 has brought a taste of outer space into its schools with the recent addition of StarLab.

Tenerife may be known for its beaches, but it’s the island’s stargazing that leaves the biggest impression, boasting some of the clearest skies in the world.

Astronomy professor Chris Impey's MOOC, or Massive Online Open Course, has already signed up more than 1,000 students and it recently got a shout-out from Sports Illustrated, which listed "free online ...

Disclaimer: Zahra Schenck is a former Diamondback copy editor. Senior economics major Zahra Schenck needed a science credit that wouldn’t tank her GPA. With graduation looming, she was in search of a ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...