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 ...

Cambridge, MA – On a cold winter day, the warmth of the Sun is welcome. Yet as humanity emits more greenhouse gases, the Earth's atmosphere traps more and more of the Sun's energy, which ...

Cambridge, MA – A new astronomical survey is a portrait of gargantuan proportions. It shows the staggering number of stars bristling among the wispy bands of dust in our home galaxy, the ...

Seattle, WA – Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole's gravitational grasp violently rip...

Seattle, WA – Researchers using NASA’s JWST have formally embarked on a new frontier: Identifying and analyzing rocky exoplanets that orbit red dwarf stars.

Seattle, WA – Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) have unveiled a first-of-its-kind map that could help answer decades-old questions about the or...