Paris: The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) is about to reach new heights as the Global Cornerstone Project, 100 Hours of Astronomy, scheduled to take place from 2-5 April 2009, ramps up ...

The North American Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (NA-ROAD) is pleased to announce the selection of 10 astronomy for development projects as part of the 2024 cohort. These projects will ...

The European Union (EU) has granted 1.9 million euros to support the 6-country educational program EUNAWE, based on Universe Awareness (UNAWE). UNAWE is an IAU-endorsed program that uses the beauty ...

Some New Brunswick astronomers are joining a chorus of opposition against an American company’s touted goals of using mirrors ...

NASA’s flagship orbiting mega-observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, launched billions of dollars over budget and over a decade late. The space agency’s next prize, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

“So that’s the end of my talk. But it’s also, unfortunately, the end of the HiPERCAM project.” The room went quiet. Vikram Dhillon, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield, had just ...

Fifty years ago, just before the first decadal survey in astronomy (the Whitford report), astronomy and astrophysics was practiced very differently than it is today. Virtually all telescopes were in ...

Astro2010 will survey the field of space- and ground-based astronomy and astrophysics, recommending priorities for the most important scientific and technical activities of the decade 2010-2020.

In 1958, a newly minted Harvard Ph. D. named Frank Drake came to Green Bank. Usually he sought out typical radio astronomy targets — the Van Allen Belts around Earth, say, or the surface temperature ...