Free Online Astronomy Courses

4 Astronomy Courses

Astrobiology and Space Exploration

Stanford University

Astrobiology is a new meta-discipline which combines astronomy, biology, chemistry, philosophy, and physics in an effort to study the current state of life in the...

Introduction to Astrophysics

Yale University

This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. Particular...

Introduction to Cosmology

University of California, Irvine

Overview of modern scientific cosmology, including discussion of stars, the Milky Way galaxy, black holes, dark matter, the big bang, and evidence for our current...