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...

Cambridge, MA – The satellite host of NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument recently arrived by aircraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ahead of its la...

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 ...

WHAT: Mission and program briefing of the new, space-based instrument TEMPO, which will soon deliver detailed data and analysis of air pollution over greater North America. ...

Cambridge, MA – Air pollution is an existential threat to millions of Americans with asthma and other health issues. In response to that threat, NASA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Obs...

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.