Women have long contributed meaningful scientific discoveries to the field of astronomy; however, men have primarily dominated the vocation. As of 2019, women earn about 40 percent of the Ph.D.s ...

"That's why we study this." Women scientists break 'ice ceiling' in cutting-edge field: 'Trying to make science open for ...

Though women are underrepresented in astronomy, they've made some significant contributions to the field. Tracy Caldwell Dyson, a chemist and NASA astronaut, looks at Earth from the International ...

For female astronomers, the COVID-19 pandemic widened publishing’s gender gap Productivity increased for all astronomers in first two years of pandemic, but less for women ...

An asteroid has been named after 19th century astronomer Annie Walker, Cambridge’s first professional female astronomer.

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Edited by American astronomers Virginia Trimble from the University of California, Irvine, and David A Weintraub of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, The Sky Is For Everyone is an anthology focusing ...

Female scientists played important roles in the Manhattan Project that created the first atomic bomb during World War II. But you wouldn’t know this from the blockbuster movie, “Oppenheimer ...

Author: BARBARA SPECTOR, p.20 The good news for women astronomers is that their numbers are increasing, according to a recent survey of members of the Washington, D.C.-based American Astronomical ...

Vera C. Rubin, the astronomer for whom the new observatory is named, circa 1985. In the 1970s, she and a colleague uncovered strong evidence for the existence of dark matter.

The two recent landings of robotic rovers on Mars are the work, in part, of a new generation of female scientists and engineers. (WOMENSENEWS)–When the second robotic rover, named Opportunity, landed ...