The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astronomy and astrophysics with the research community, the ...

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what ...

Plaque-unveiling ceremony of the Hong Kong Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. From left: Professor Bing Zhang, Founding Director of HKIAA; Professor Matthew Bailes, 2023 Shaw Prize Laureate in ...

Breakthroughs in astrophysics could reshape our understanding of the universe in the next decade. Observations of gravity waves could prove Einstein’s theory of general relativity, or tip physics on ...

Sagnick Mukherjee will receive his Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from UC Santa Cruz this spring. He is expected to begin his fellowship at Arizona State University in September 2025. (Photo by ...

My name is Vanessa Brown and I’m a first-year PhD student in the APS department at the University of Colorado Boulder. I received my M.S. Astrophysics from the City University of New York (CUNY) in ...

With some regularity, I get asked the difference between astronomy and astrophysics. I suppose I’m a good person to ask: Of my three degrees, two of them are in “astronomy and astrophysics”. But what ...

In an elementary school science class, Rav Kaur first learned about stars, planets, and other wonders in the night skies. That introduction to the solar system launched her passion for space ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading scientist on the heliosphere and the local interstellar medium, died on ...

Jeremiah “Jerry” P. Ostriker, the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation, Emeritus, and professor of astrophysical sciences, emeritus, died at his home in New York ...