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 ...

David McIntosh ’07 and Brendan Cohen ’05, Yale’s only astronomy B.A. majors, have different plans for the future than most astronomy B.S. majors — astronautics and teaching rather than graduate-level ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

The XXVIIIth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) ends today in Beijing, China. One of the largest astronomy meetings ever held, it saw a pot pourri of frontline astronomy ...

The Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (APS) is one of the few programs nationwide that combines both astrophysics and planetary science, providing a unified view of space sciences, ...

Finding yourself wearing giant inflatable reindeer antlers is bizarre. If you happen to be in front of students and professors in your major (who you hope respect you as a researcher and person), then ...

Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...