Dr. Wilhelmus (Will) van der Veen of Edison, director of the Science Education Institute at the New Jersey Astronomy Center, has received the 2008 Thomas J. Brennan Award from the Astronomical Society ...

Slooh, a company that allows for space exploration via a network of online telescopes, has launched a homeschool astronomy program. The science lessons will include weekly webinars for students.

Smithsonian STARS— Scientists Taking Astronomy to Rural Schools— aims to bridge gaps in access to hands-on STEM learning opportunities for children in rural and tribal nation schools by providing a ...

Michael Paolucci, CEO and founder of the robotic telescope company Slooh, has wondered why all schools provide students with microscopes to examine the small things in the world, but they rarely ...

Join Slooh Astronomer Paul Cox and Slooh Educator Russell Glenn for an astronomy lesson livestream featuring Slooh’s online telescopes, on Thursday, March 19th, 2020 at 4:30 PM EDT ¦ 20:30UTC. Slooh’s ...

(Phys.org) —Looking up through hundreds of colored filters and spectral glasses, 526 people shattered the record for the Largest Astronomy Lesson. Under the Texas night sky, students were instructed ...

CU students spent Tuesday at Frederick High School, teaching astronomy lessons and leading presentations in an inflatable planetarium. They covered astrobiology, black holes and how scientists find ...

A star projector shows stars in the night sky against an orange backdrop in the De Anza College’s Fujitsu Planetarium in Cupertino on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening, ...