Planetary Society and California State University Dominguez Hills Team Up on Distance Learning Beginning Monday, February 7, a 13-week astronomy and planetary science course sponsored by The Planetary ...

Astronomy professor Chris Impey's MOOC, or Massive Online Open Course, has already signed up more than 1,000 students and it recently got a shout-out from Sports Illustrated, which listed "free online ...

The Carter Observatory will run a new NCEA course in astronomy next week. The course is a trial of the new unit standards in astronomy being developed by the Carter Observatory in conjunction with the ...

It is my pleasure to introduce you to the very first episode of my new online video series, Crash Course Astronomy. I’m not gonna lie to you: I’m pretty happy about this. It was a lot of fun to write, ...

A new introductory textbook called Astronomy has just been published by OpenStax, a national, non-profit project to develop high-quality, introductory textbooks that are free to students. The ...