Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Michael Richmond considers himself a “lucky guy.” As a professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, he gets to spend his workdays talking about the subjects that have fascinated him since he ...

Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand climate change and the... Why Astronomy 101 is 'perfect' for teaching climate ...

Warm summer nights are a great time to get your kids interested in the universe around them. Astronomy is defined as the science which deals with celestial objects, space and the physical universe as ...

Educators and telescopes share a trait - they can open the minds of young people to strange new worlds. Don McCarthy said he has tried to do just that for the 1,500 students who have attended the ...

Keely Finkelstein of the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin has been chosen to hold an endowed Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship for 2021-2022. The ...

ST. JOHNSBURY—The Community College of Vermont (CCV) is pleased to welcome well-known meteorologist Mark Breen to its faculty this spring semester. Recognized across the state as the personality ...

CU students spent Tuesday at Frederick High School, teaching astronomy lessons and leading presentations in an inflatable planetarium. They covered astrobiology, black holes and how scientists find ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- The use of Global Positioning System technology is so widespread that its availability is almost taken for granted. However, there may come a time when using GPS is not an ...

For Andrew Fraknoi, it all began with comic books. The astronomer was 8 years old when he first thumbed through their pages, soaking up illustrations of star-studded galaxies — and the superheroes ...