A supermoon rising over the horizon. They’re examples of our fascination with astronomy. At the University of Nebraska at Kearney, two students are building a community for anyone interested in ...

The annual Leonids meteor shower is due to peak next week, hopefully giving stargazers a treat to brighten up the dark winter ...

With $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation’s second Future of Semiconductor program (FuSe2), the University of ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

For nearly a decade, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has been working to bring together resources through ...

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.

A great example of such an app is Stellarium—a planetarium program ... then heading out to look at it with your own eyes.

A team of computer scientists, astronomers and historians in Berlin has used machine-learning applications to learn more ...

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...

After centuries of effort by brilliant theorists, we’re left with a confusing mélange of unsatisfactory ...

My first reaction when I heard about the sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” was that this is some nerdy show that revolves around ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...