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 American Astronomical Society (AAS) and its Historical Astronomy Division announce the launch on 25 July of the Astronomy Genealogy Project, or AstroGen. The project’s website at ...

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 ...

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt, have committed private funding to four ambitious ...

As hundreds of US astronomers draft their latest decadal wish list of new projects, Nature took a short-cut by convening a small survey around a dinner table. Eric Hand listens in. In a Lebanese ...

The National Science Foundation will no longer fund the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope planned for construction atop Mauna Kea, instead choosing to back its international competitor, the Giant ...

Stars continue to align for a pilot astronomy program at the VA PHS Heinz campus in O’Hara. James Surman, a Plum resident and one of the founders of the Astronomy for Disabled Veterans project, said ...

FILE - Radio antennas are spread out on the terrain as part of one of the world's largest astronomy projects, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chajnator in the Atacama desert ...