When galaxies collide, the central supermassive black holes that reside at their cores will end up orbiting one another in a binary pair, at least according to current simulations. Einst...

The year of 2015 has been declared the International Year of Light (IYL) by the United Nations. Organizations, institutions, and individuals involved in the science and applications of li...

Supermassive black holes with millions or billions of solar-masses of material are found at the nuclei of most galaxies. During the embryonic stages of these galaxies they are thought to...

Giovanni Fazio has been awarded the 2015 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship for lifetime preeminence in astronomical research by the American Astronomical Society. Fazio's pioneering work o...

The Scientific Board of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAA RAS) has awarded Dr. Michael Pearlman with a 2014 Gold Medal of Merit for his outstandin...

Seyfert galaxies are similar to spiral galaxies except that they have extraordinarily prominent, bright nuclei, sometimes as luminous as 100 billion Suns. Their huge energies are thought...

Cambridge, MA - Astronomers announced today that they have found eight new planets in the "Goldilocks" zone of their stars, orbiting at a distance where liquid water can exist on the p...

Cambridge, MA - When you're a kid every birthday is cause for celebration, but as you get older they become a little less exciting. You might not want to admit just how old you are. An...

Cambridge, MA - For life as we know it to develop on other planets, those planets would need liquid water, or oceans. Geologic evidence suggests that Earth's oceans have existed for ne...

Cambridge, MA - How do you make an Earth-like planet? The "test kitchen" of Earth has given us a detailed recipe, but it wasn't clear whether other planetary systems would follow the s...