Planetariums around the world are invited to participate in this year’s edition of the IAU’s annual outreach event.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The Natural Sciences curriculum content taught during the third and fourth school terms was covered in the final training ...

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse planetarium will close its doors permanently in December, marking the end of a 57-year ...