"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular ...

It is the International Day Of Women And Girls In Science, and what better way to celebrate than to discuss the work of Henrietta Leavitt, the scientist who discovered Cepheid variables and laid the ...

The federal webpage for an observatory named for the late astronomer Vera Rubin was edited to omit any recognition of the ...

Apparently the astrolabe, a device used to determine the location of celestial bodies, was invented by a woman – the Alexandrian mathematician, philosopher and astronomer Hypatia. Women have played a ...