There are many parallels between artists who devote themselves to recreating the distant ages of the Earth's past and those who recreate distant worlds in space. Both depend on science; both re-create ...

In January 2004, NASA announced it was canceling a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. In light of dangers associated with the Columbia tragedy the previous year, it was considered too ...

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Colleges are ancient institutions, with the oldest universities clocking in at around a thousand years in age. For those of you keeping score, that's older than most nations. And those first ...

Her solution? Incorporating artistic assignments into her scientific curriculum — a practice becoming more commonplace within science education, and one with which Wooten has firsthand experience. “In ...

On glass negatives of distant starscapes, women scientists analyzed discoveries. Their work was nearly erased, until an artist saved it. Artist Erika Blumenfeld chose materials forged by stars.

Astronomers John Barentine and Gilbert Esquerdo propose that a petroglyph in Arizona's White Tanks Regional Park depicts the supernova of 1006, the brightest recorded astronomical event in history.

Ron Miller is an award-winning artist and best-selling author who has written more than 50 books, including the recently published "The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, from the Earliest ...

Installation view of ‘BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Sarah and Joseph Belknap’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) “12 Months of the Sun” is the ...