"Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact." This quote, attributed to Isaac Asimov, captures science's intricate relationship with science fiction. And it is hardly a one-way relationship.

The Flagstaff Science Festival, the nation’s longest-running free science festival, continues this weekend.

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April 24, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute and the Maldives Space Research Organisation (MSRO) will collaborate on astronomy research, space science education and public outreach. This ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Astronomers typically deal with the very, very large — big telescopes, giant galaxies, and massive exploding stars. But ...

In “Citizen Science in Astronomy (Part 7),” SETI Institute astronomers Dr. Franck Marchis and Dr. Lauren Sgro highlight two rare and compelling discoveries and the crucial role of citizen scientists ...

Carl Sagan wrote in the June 1974 issue of Astronomy: “Clearly the best time to be alive is when you start out wondering and end up knowing. There is only one generation in the whole history of ...

Astronomy has a special appeal to the public by virtue of the richness of its images, the exotic environments in which it plays out, and the fundamental questions it asks about cosmic origins. No ...

Chennai: More than 250 undergraduate students from Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram and Chengalpet districts participated in ...

Access to archival material is becoming increasingly important for all space science disciplines because data are often analyzed more than once and because scientists combine existing data sets across ...