Cambridge, MA -- On July 1, 1973, the Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory signed an agreement to become the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smith...

Heather Williams will become the first Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), beginning July 12, 2023.

Cambridge, Mass. – Astronomers have revealed that the smallest and most common kinds of stars in the universe, called red dwarfs, very rarely host big, Jupiter-like planets. This absence ...

Cambridge, MA--Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet, a world beyond the solar system, that may be carpeted with volcanoes and could potentially support life. Called LP 791-...

AstroAI strives to bring experts in artificial intelligence together with scientists to tackle the most exciting and challenging problems in astrophysics. By facilitating interdisciplinar...

Earlier this week, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced the election of 120 members and 23 international members, considered to be one of the highest honors that can be accord...

Sheperd "Shep" Doeleman, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been named the recipient of the Georges Lemaître International Prize by the Louv...

Samuel Yee, a soon-to-be postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), and Juliana García-Mejía, a doctoral student at the CfA, have been awarded 5...

Cambridge, MA – On October 9, 2022, an intense pulse of gamma-ray radiation swept through our solar system, overwhelming gamma-ray detectors on numerous orbiting satellites, and sending a...

Floor Broekgaarden was rifling through her dad's library in the basement of her childhood home in the Netherlands. A particular volume caught her eye: A Brief History of Time by the late ...