Ellen Price, a doctoral student at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been awarded the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation. Price is one of...

Trojans are small astronomical bodies that orbit the sun in clusters near a planet, situated at two spots preferred by gravity about sixty degrees ahead of or behind the planet in its orb...

When Harvard Ph.D. student Claire Lamman isn't helping map the universe, there's a good chance she might be baking a piece of it.

Cambridge, MA – Astronomers have now obtained a new view of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87. Images released today by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaborati...

The ionization of the neutral gas in an interstellar molecular cloud plays a key role in the cloud’s evolution, helping to regulate the heating and cooling processes, the chemistry and mo...

Cambridge, MA - Scientists have discovered a vast, previously unknown reservoir of new aromatic material in a cold, dark molecular cloud by detecting individual polycyclic aromatic hydroc...

Ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs), powered by starburst activity and often with supermassive black holes accreting material at their nuclei, contain large reservoirs of molecular g...

Cambridge, MA - Scientists have long theorized that supermassive black holes can wander through space—but catching them in the act has proven difficult. Now, researchers at the Center f...

Cambridge, MA - The research, published this month in The Astronomical Journal, was led by Spencer Hurt, an astronomy undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder. Hurt con...

The binary star system Her X-1 consists of a 1.5 solar-mass neutron star – the super-dense, collapsed remnant of a massive star – in orbit around the 2.2 solar-mass star, HZ Herculis. Loc...