The recent opening of the Sherwood Observatory in Nottinghamshire marks a significant milestone in public engagement with astronomy. With an impressive £6.8 million ...

Enhancing Astronomy Education through an Interactive STEM Day Program . Creative Education, 16, 1328-1341. doi: ...

Journal of Science Education and Technology, Vol. 24, No. 1 (FEBRUARY 2015), pp. 1-15 (15 pages) This study aimed to determine students' knowledge levels related to specific astronomy concepts and the ...

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

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 ...

The other ambassadors were planetarium directors, astrophotographers, teachers, and research assistants. One was a Chilean educator leading K-12 astronomy education in her school.

Linda Strubbe, a former post-doctoral fellow in the Canadian Institute of Theoretical Physics (CITA) at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts & Science, has received an Astronomy Education Prize ...

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 ...

The Astronomy Community Gathering will kick off at 11 PM and continue until approximately 3:30 AM on September 8. This timing is particularly significant as the total lunar eclipse is expected to ...

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 ...