You don’t need an expert to decipher “the un-sunlike sun,” as the astronomer Maria Mitchell described it during her own eclipse experience in 1878. You don’t need a solar physicist by your ...

It was also a solidly male affair, with a few notable exceptions, such as the astronomer Maria Mitchell, discoverer of “Miss ...

Um, so imagination comes from both, both places. MEHLHOFF: While walking through the Bell Museum’s exhibits, I found a quote from American astronomer Maria Mitchell. She says, “I think we especially ...

It commemorates Mitchell, America's first professional woman astronomer and astronomy professor. Funded by the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund for Engineering, Science and Technology, and presented by the ...

in part because the institution had offered her a scholarship and because she had read that Maria Mitchell, the first American woman to become a professional astronomer, had worked there.

Astronomy is a rapidly evolving academic discipline, experts say. "Being an astronomer today is like being an explorer hundreds of years ago," Lada explains. "Scientists are constantly discovering ...

Combining both orchestration and observability into its core technology proposition, Astronomer, the company behind the Astro data orchestration platform, has now created Astro Observe.

In addition to her duties as a lab instructor for the astronomy department, Meg Thacher is the academic director for Smith’s Summer Science and Engineering Program for high school girls. She has also ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. When is Mercury retrograde? It starts today, and if you believe ...

Russian astronomer Valerij Kozhevnikov has performed photometric observations of a candidate cataclysmic variable known as LAMOST J035913.61+405035.0. He detected 14 eclipses of this system.

Students tell us what they have learned from the platonic, familial and romantic relationships in their lives. By The Learning Network How do you feel about automated vehicles? What effects do ...

Russ Mitchell covers energy technology and policy from a California perspective, including the state’s ambitious transition to electric vehicles. He’s worked on staff at publications ranging ...