An ancient book on astronomy from the 1500s sold for more than £10,000 ($12,200), as a "private international buyer" triumphed over intense competition at a U.K. auction. The Castle of Knowledge by ...

The Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its 2011 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Nathan Sivin for his landmark volume “Granting the Seasons: ...

“Big Astronomy” (http://bigastronomy.org) or “Astronomia a Gran Escala” is a bilingual planetarium show that extends beyond the dome using web-based and hands ...

A University of Virginia astronomy professor will take part in a book talk at signing at a Charlottesville bookshop this weekend. Kelsey Johnson will be speaking about her new nonfiction book, Into ...

The Brunswick Astronomy Club is a non-profit, educational organization established in 1991. According to their website, "Our goal is to bring, both novice and advanced, amateur astronomers together in ...

A small primary school in Perth is using the oldest stories from the Noongar people to teach year 2 students the wonders of the Universe. Westminster Primary is a tiny school in a low socio-economic ...

There might be an undiscovered treatise hidden within a Renaissance astronomy book. One of two astronomy books recently donated to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), located west of Buffalo ...

Copernicus is inarguably one of the greatest minds of science. His contributions to modern astronomical understanding have earned him a permanent position in the hall of science's greatest (and ...

As the Oxford astrophysicist Chris Lintott wryly notes in “Accidental Astronomy,” our very existence depended on a celestial accident some 66 million years ago, when “an asteroid coincidentally ...