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.

When you look at the night sky, do you ever wonder what's going on out there? On a clear night with a dark sky, if moonlight doesn't wash it out, sometimes you can see the arc of the Milky Way. The ...

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

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

The new Hestia telescope by Vaonis is the third of the company’s innovative instruments I have reviewed, and once again, I’m impressed. Vaonis named their creation for the Greek goddess of the hearth ...

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.

Want to explore the stars but can’t due to heavily light-polluted skies? A team of astronomers based at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has a solution for you. Instead of trying to ...

A telescope is seen in the observatory at Minnesota State University Moorhead Regional Science Center, adjacent to Buffalo River State Park near Glyndon, Minnesota. MOORHEAD — A professor in the ...

Scientists have detected gamma rays from the Crab Nebula, the most famous of supernova remnants, using a next-generation telescope that opens the door for astrophysicists to study some of the most ...

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 ...