Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an astronomer ahead of her time, discovered the relationship between a star’s brightness and its fluctuation period. This breakthrough allowed Edwin Hubble to measure galaxy ...

The cast is set for the Peterborough Theatre Guild’s upcoming production of “Silent Sky.” Being staged at the Guildhall on Rogers Street, from March 21 to April 5, the play, by Lauren Gunderson, is ...

Leavitt is a high performance computing cluster (HPCC) named in honor of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (left), an American astronomer whose discoveries at the turn of the 20th Century helped shape our ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was being considered before her untimely death in 1921. Neither is it vital to this story that ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was ...

The U of A’s programs in music, theatre and art are set to showcase an exciting lineup of performances that celebrate the fine arts this semester.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

A brief standoff with Colombia holds important lessons for how future trade conflicts might unfold in the new Trump administration.

Hubble leveraged a discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier. She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a "human computer," laboriously measuring the positions and ...

Well-off retirees stand to gain thousands of dollars in tax savings every year if President Donald Trump succeeds in his bid to exempt Social Security benefits from income taxes, while younger workers ...