and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia. He has written four books on astronomy and consulted on space TV shows and movies, including the 2016 hit, Arrival. He ...

In his latest book, published this month by Simon & Schuster and excerpted here, Ferris reflects on his lifelong passion for amateur astronomy and reports on the worldwide revolution that he says ...

I walked around and I asked the librarian if they had any astronomy books, and the librarian directed me to a bookshelf with very large books, very thick, and I. I took one down and I was flipping ...

A day or two later, she took the bus to the PerkinsSchool library. “I pulled the astronomy books down and I flipped through them, and there wasn’t one picture,” she says. Later, Grice ...

"Astronomy is the bridge between life on Earth and everything else happening in the universe, whether it be our Moon, the sun, or an ancient galaxy billions of light-years away," Brian Lada, a ...