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.

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 ...

Enhancing Astronomy Education through an Interactive STEM Day Program. Creative Education, 16, 1328-1341. doi: ...

Introduction to Astronomy is a college class usually filled with excitement and a lot of questions about outer space. Questions like: What are black holes? Are there planets out there that are ...

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 Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program (ACEAP) is a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded initiative fostering collaboration between U.S. and Chilean astronomical institutions. ACEAP ...

SINGAPORE - Five students from Singapore clinched four gold medals and a bronze at an international Olympiad for astronomy ...

The latest news and top stories on the National Astronomy Education Coordinator Team for China, Hong Kong. A prominent China and Hong Kong-based coordinating body, this team operates under the ...

The latest news and top stories on the International Astronomical Union Office of Astronomy for Education. A prominent Heidelberg, Germany-based educational office, the IAU OAE is dedicated to ...

The International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2026 will bring 3,000 participants from 80 countries to Vietnam's ...

On a night with clear skies and stars shining their brightest, a grandpa shows his grandson the little dipper. That grandson knew, from that moment forward, he would be looking at the stars forever.

Suzie Dills has waited for years to see a total solar eclipse. This year, her wish is coming true. Dills is an astronomer and director of the Hoover Price Planetarium in Canton. She viewed a partial ...