Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

Unistellar's citizen scientists are using their smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense, research and observational astronomy.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang. Using telescopes ...

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...