There are plenty of reasons to spend a Saturday night looking up. On Sept. 12, Bainbridge Island has another one: a local high school senior who thinks quantum mechanics might go down a little easier ...

State Board of Education has approved changes to high school social studies, sparking controversy. The new curriculum emphasizes "radical Islam" as the motivation behind the 9/11 ...

THIS is the third of a series of text-books recently prepared by Prof. Young for use in schools and colleges of different grades. The two previous ones have already been noticed in NATURE (vol. xxxix ...

Some of the greatest works of art can be found in museums and galleries. But little do many know, the greatest piece of artwork can be found on the universe’s largest canvas: The night sky! It can be ...

Pasadena Unified School District students are exploring the wonders of the universe this summer through hands-on astronomy lessons led by scientists from Carnegie Observatories. The program gives ...

Through school visits, public events, an inflatable planetarium, hands-on demonstrations, and Carnegie Observatories’ annual Open House, Outreach Coordinator Jeff Rich is connecting people—especially ...

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — A major restoration project is complete at Glendale Junior-Senior High School, bringing a decades-old planetarium back to life. The Planetarium at Glendale Junior Senior ...

Up in the night sky, just west of the moon, two bright stars mark the constellation Gemini, named after the mythological twins Castor and Pollux. On certain nights, Jupiter is visible within the ...

A Bronx astronomy enthusiast convicted of killing a 13-year-old girl after DNA linked him decades later to the crime was sentenced Thursday to 25 years to life in prison. “Jupiter” Joe Martinez wasn’t ...

Some 30 evenings a year, Astronomer Maarten Schmidt, 36, struggles with an electrically heated flight suit and enters the great, silvery dome of California’s Mount Palomar Observatory. There, his tall ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every other Monday at 9 a.m., Don Hladiuk joins a Zoom call with a group of 30 to 45 students. They are eager to learn about space ...

Pranvera (Pran) Hyseni stood behind a golden telescope as a line of wide-eyed students stretched across the playground, craning to catch a glimpse of explosions on the surface of the sun. Between ...