Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

Ithacans can now enjoy a drink alongside space science education thanks to the efforts of five graduate students in Cornell’s astronomy department. The students are spearheading an “Astronomy on Tap” ...

SkyMapper and the SETI Institute have formed a strategic partnership to help SkyMapper build a decentralized telescope ...

Two Alfred University undergraduates accompanied their astronomy professors to the Astronomical Society of New York conference, held at Cornell University. Their work is part of a larger effort by ...

WASHINGTON — Forty-six undergraduate and graduate students have been selected to represent NASA in their local communities as recipients of the agency’s International Year of Astronomy, or IYA, ...

Sam Van Kooten and Dan Van Noord won’t need sunglasses this summer. But, that doesn’t mean they won’t be looking skyward. The two sophomore physics majors each received a $2,500 undergraduate ...

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Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

Last year, senior Dan Van Noord discovered a subdwarf B binary star, which is akin to winning the astronomy lottery. Out of more than 100 billion stars in our galaxy, it’s estimated that only one ...

Rochester Institute of Technology graduate student Valerie Rapson was invited to join the American Astronomical Society Astronomy Ambassador program. Rapson, a resident of Greece, N.Y., is a Ph.D.

A North Dakota State College of Science student will travel throughout the state next year as North Dakota's International Year of Astronomy student ambassador. Kristin Eberhardt, a sophomore from ...