I am a scientist, astronomer, and an engineer with the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian at the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. I...

WHAT: The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will host a press conference to announce a groundbreaking Milky Way galaxy discovery from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). WHEN: 9 a....

Astrophysics graduate student Michael Foley has been elected to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Education Committee, becoming the first graduate student to serve on the committee ...

The Small Bodies Node (SBN) of NASA's Planetary Data System has named Matthew Payne director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC). Payne is currently acting director of the MPC and a scientis...

The Greenland Telescope is an innovative research project that will help scientists explore some of the Universe's deepest mysteries, including the use of black holes to study gravity in ...

Cambridge, MA -- An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most distant astronomical object ...

Shreyas Vissapragada, a soon-to-be postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been awarded the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foun...

Cambridge, MA -- It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting up the screen in large chunks and clusters. But this is not a video about insec...

GMACS is being developed for the entire Giant Magellan Telescope community by scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics and at the Steiner Institute in Sao Paulo Brazil.&nbs...