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...

Seattle, WA – Scientists have discovered something unexpected while studying masers around oddball star MWC 349A: a previously unseen jet of material launching from the star's gas disk at...

Cambridge, Mass. – For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an evolved, or older, host star. The stricken world appears destined to spiral ...

From the heyday of giant, sensor-toting balloons several decades ago to today's overhead fleet of multispectral Earth-observing satellites, atmospheric science has come a long way instrum...

Editor's Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process.

Cambridge, Mass. – Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) — the most energetic explosions in the universe — come in two varieties, long and short. Long GRBs, which last from two to hundreds of seconds, ...

Cambridge, Mass. – Two astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole ...

Cambridge, Mass – The telescope's array of highly sensitive instruments was trained on the atmosphere of a "hot Saturn" — a planet about as massive as Saturn orbiting a star some 700...

Cambridge, MA – Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are some of the most powerful and luminous cosmic explosions since the Big Bang. Despite this, only a few of these short flashes of radiation...

  Cambridge, Mass. – A new study has revealed the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy. For decades, astronomers thought this cloud of stars&n...