Improving Science Education for All Despite evidence for widespread interest in STEM among children across gender and race, the demographics of STEM do not reflect the population as a wh...

Improving Science Education for All Due to economic disparities between school districts and a number of other social factors, students arrive at universities with a wide range of previo...

Innovative Teaching Tools for Physical Science The physical sciences — including physics, astronomy, and Earth science — are essential parts of science, technology, engineering, and...

Vivid Views of Space from Your Desktop A large quantity of astronomical research is publicly funded, and freely available for use by anyone who wants it. However, much of that data requi...

Studying Planetary Nurseries Stars and planets are born in dense, cold interstellar clouds of gas and dust. These regions of space are opaque to visible light, but infrared light reveals...

Looking for Exoplanets From Your Home When a planet passes in front of its host star, it blocks a small amount of the star’s light. Detecting these so-called transits is largely a matter...

With techniques developed in quantum mechanics, molecular spectra can be modeled by a set of discrete fundamental parameters. The knowledge of these reference molecular spectroscopic para...

Jewels of the Night Sky American astronomer Benjamin Gould identified the belt of bright stars and nebulas that bears his name  in 1879, while he was assisting the Argentinian gover...

Exoplanets in the High School Classroom Most high schools don’t own telescopes capable of studying exoplanets. However, the telescopes used by modern astronomers are controlled by comput...

Infant Stars in a Stellar Nursery Cygnus-X was first identified as a bright source of radio emissions in the 1950s, when radio astronomy was still in its infancy. Located near the center...