The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its 2006 Education Prize to Dr. Sidney Wolff,an astronomer and former director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona ...

Astronomy Education Review (AER), the online journal of astronomy and space-science education published by the American Astronomical Society (AAS), celebrated 10 years of promoting science ...

Science teacher Milton Johnson received a $10,000 grant from “Jenny’s Heroes,” a foundation created by former talk show host Jenny Jones.

UA astronomer Don McCarthy has spent nearly all his career at the UA, and is now being rewarded for it. McCarthy has been at the UA since the 1970s, when he was a graduate student pursuing his ...

The IAU has selected Haus der Astronomie (HdA), an astronomy outreach center based in Heidelberg, Germany, as the location for its new Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE). First announced last ...

Astronomy Education Review is on-line journal about astronomy education and outreach, published by the American Astronomical Society, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this fall.

Prison-education programs run by volunteer astronomers in Washington and New Jersey improve science literacy among adult and juvenile populations.

Chile is turning to astronomy to strengthen cooperation with Malaysia in education and science. Its Ambassador to Kuala ...

I point out the stars and constellations with a high-powered green laser.” Raj Pandya is the director of the John R. Kirk Planetarium and teaches astronomy and physics at SUNY New Paltz.