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...

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 ...

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...