The Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard (DASCH) project has made the first of 12 planned data releases. DASCH is digitally scanning the ~500,000 glass plate images covering the full...

Cambridge, MA Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are r...

Ramesh Narayan has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. The NAS was established by an Act of Congress...

Astronomers think that many galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have undergone similar collisions during their lifetimes. Although galaxy collisions are important and common, what h...

David Latham has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Academy is one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for inde...

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Scientists have used Chandra to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. This unusually large reservoir of gas contains as much mass...

Magnetic field measurement techniques have long enabled scientists to probe the internal structure of biological and material samples. For example, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provid...

"We’ll be able to see the beginning of the universe as we know it today," says Charles Alcock, director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and professor of astronomy...

Alex Dalgarno has been selected to receive the 2013 Franklin Institute Medal in Physics. Since 1824, the Franklin Institute has honored the greatest men and women of science, engineering,...