astronomer

The stars have aligned for Canberra-based astronomer Lisa Kewley. This July, she will become the first woman and the first Australian director of the Center for Astrophysics (Harvard & Smithsonian), USA. Professor Kewley, an…

This weekend, Wheaton Drama is opening its next production, Lauren Gunderson's "Silent Sky," the poignant tale of a woman's dedication to the stars. It is 1900 and Henrietta Leavitt is an astronomer ahead of her…

For amateur astronomer Colleen O'Hare in Kelowna, B.C., it's a beautiful part of life to know an asteroid somewhere far away in the universe is now her namesake. The Paris-based International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced last…

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, has been honored by the White House with a Presidential Award for Excellence in…

A view of the Falcon 9 second stage as imaged by a ground telescope in Italy during the evening of February 6, 2022. Image: Virtual Telescope Project/Gianluca MasiWell here’s something you don’t see everyday: A discarded Falcon 9 second…

One of the girls asked Mitchell if she might enroll in the school. Raised like most Quakers to oppose slavery, Mitchell knew that recently debate had raged in Nantucket’s white community about the radical notion of integrating the…

For this week’s column, I’m deviating a bit as the result of an email I received from a reader regarding the tough subjects of astrology and astronomy.Quite often when speaking to a group of people or just in casual…

An asteroid wider than the tallest building in the world is headed…

Netflix’s new Adam McKay comedy, “Don’t Look Up,” is intended to be a parable for the ills of modern society. The film follows two astronomers who have discovered that a giant comet will hit Earth, destroying it upon impact, and follows…

Kliff Kingsbury’s 35-40 record at Texas Tech had no bearing as to why the Arizona Cardinals hired him as their head coach in 2019. None. Yet, Kliff’s skeptics are still trying to stir up the mud with regard to Kliff’s record at Texas…