If you a) have recently lamented the arts-sciences disconnect, b) would like to make your coffee table look smarter, c) enjoy thinking about all the satellites staring down at us, and/or d) think Earth is a cool place to live, consider checking...

In June of this year, news broke that NASA had received two space telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Both instruments hold mirrors 2.4 meters across, the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope. However, both have shorter focal...

Posted on behalf of the Uwingu team; Astronomy magazine is a proud partner of this effort to raise funding for space science At Uwingu , we want to find new ways to connect people to space and the sky, and to use that interest to fuel a new way to...

Many of you are probably familiar with Kickstarter, the funding platform for creative projects. If you want to produce a music album but don’t have the money, you can put your idea on Kickstarter; if people like it enough, they will send you money...

On Saturday, February 16, 2013, Astronomy magazine and the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association (TAAA) will host an all-day skywatching party at the East Campus Observatory of Pima Community College (PCC). Activities start at 10 a.m. and continue through...