The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded one of 16 Fellowships in Science and Engineering to Professor Alicia Soderberg at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She...

Cambridge, MA Like all galaxies, our Milky Way is home to a strange substance called dark matter. Dark matter is invisible, betraying its presence only through its gravitational pull. Wi...

An exoplanet is a planet orbiting a star other than our sun. As of this week, the exoplanet encyclopedia website lists 694 confirmed planets around other stars. Most of them have numerous...

Cambridge, MA A thousand years ago, a brilliant beacon of light blazed in the sky, shining brightly enough to be seen even in daytime for almost a month. Native American and Chinese obse...

The Sun, glowing with a surface temperature of about 5500 degrees Celsius, warms the Earth with its salutary light. Meanwhile the Sun's hot outer layer (the corona), with its temperature...

Cambridge, MA Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers at its 16,500-foo...

CfA astrophysicist Justin Kasper has been honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for their innovative research and scientific leadership. It is the ...

The Kepler satellite, which has now reported the detection of 1781 candidate exoplanets (a planet around a star other than the sun), has also discovered that at least one of them orbits a...

Cambridge, MA New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thoug...

Harvard University Dean of Science Jeremy Bloxham has announced that Professor David Charbonneau is one of two recipients of Harvard's 2011 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teac...