Nature Astronomy Focus issue on equity in astronomy. A variety of Comments, ... women-led papers are cited systematically 10% less than their men-led equivalents.

Following March 2020's closure of many universities and research facilities to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the publication of astronomy papers has increased by 13%, according to a new analysis.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, decommissioned earlier this year, made important discoveries about comets, stars, exoplanets and distant galaxies, leaving a lasting legacy of solar system science ...

Dr. Gregory Feiden, assistant professor of astronomy at UNG, and Dr. Wei-Chun Jao, staff astronomer and adjunct professor at Georgia State University, wrote and published a paper in the Astronomical ...

An unorthodox new astronomy journal is geared toward short, succinct updates of work in progress. Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (RNAAS), which started accepting submissions on 16 ...

Dr. Gregory Feiden, assistant professor of astronomy at UNG, and Dr. Wei-Chun Jao, staff astronomer and adjunct professor at Georgia State University, wrote and published a paper in the Astronomical ...

On Sept. 16, 1982, now-Editor David J. Eicher began working at Astronomy. He’s been with the magazine — working pretty much every job — 41 out of its 50 years.

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse." ...