An interest in astronomy may strike early in life or later. Regardless of what lit the fire of that interest, you need ...

In the early morning of September 8, 2025, a 'Blood Moon' illuminated the sky, sparking a nationwide observation craze. This astronomical phenomenon occurs when the moon enters the Earth's umbra, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Around 1800, an English schoolmistress named Margaret Bryan wrote several well-regarded textbooks on astronomy and physics for young women. While Bryan corresponded with some of the ...

ALTHOUGH primarily intended for students in civil engineering, this book is admirably adapted for a larger class of readers. A book on practical astronomy must necessarily take a lot of the ...

Massive open online classes, or MOOCs, are shrinking the world of education and in the process bringing cutting-edge astronomy to tens of thousands of people. I’m teaching MOOCs through Coursera and ...

I’m by no means a scientist (let’s be real—I’m far from it). But an introductory astronomy class in college did spark my curiosity, and raise some questions, about the marvels of the sprawling ...

(CNN) — Susan Murabana’s life-changing moment happened at 22 years old, when she looked through a telescope for the very first time. Suddenly, Saturn and its yellow-gold rings were more than just an ...

All sky view of the Milky Way taken by the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory. Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you’ll likely learn that they are “dead ...

Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you'll likely learn that they are 'dead stars' that continuously cool down over time. Astronomers are challenging this theory after ...