Press Release from The University of North Carolina Asheville: The University of North Carolina Asheville’s Department of Physics and Astronomy recently launched a new astronomy major — the first in ...

The University of Kansas campus is pictured in this aerial photo from September 2023 with the Campanile in the foreground. For faculty, staff and students in nearly a dozen degree programs at KU, the ...

Astronomy Giant 'X' appears over Chile as 2 celestial beams of light cross: Space photo of the week Astronomy James Webb telescope's 'starlit mountaintop' could be the observatory's best image yet — ...

Clara Moskowitz: On April 8, millions and millions of people across North America got to glimpse a total solar eclipse. If that brief foray into backyard astronomy left you hungry for more, never fear ...

19th-century mathematics is giving way to 3D, high-resolution, real-topography models that could provide a more precise path of totality for the next total solar eclipse. Solar eclipse maps show crisp ...

But understanding where to look, or what you're looking at... that's less easy. So you could study the cosmos for years, learning all you can about the universe and the celestial bodies within. Or, ...

Each September, almanacs start to appear across America. Most notable is The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which has been in print since 1792. Its cover states that it is “Useful, with a Pleasant Degree of ...