On Thursday, May 27, eight students in the Department of Astronomy officially earned their doctoral degrees in astrophysics.The graduates were: Boryana Hadzhiyska, John A. Lewis III, Nina...

Mining the asteroids for resources like iron, precious metals, water, or other valuable species may someday become profitable. Mining will probably starting with Near Earth Objects (NEOs)...

Star formation is arguably the most important process in the universe. Over their lifetimes, and then with their deaths, stars produce of all the chemical elements except for hydrogen and...

The answers that little kids give to the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" often change from week to week. Not so for Rachel Nere.

Not long ago, the idea of photographing a black hole was as quixotic as photographing a unicorn. Now, scientists have not one but two images of two different supermassive black holes — an...

The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian will host two NASA Hubble Fellows beginning in the fall of 2022. Two outgoing Center for Astrophysics (CfA) scientists have also be...

As far as memos go, this one may go down as one of the most consequential of Amir Siraj's career. U.S. Space Command released a communication last month that confirmed earlier findings f...

Two-and-a-half trillion pages of printed text — that's how much data researchers must gather up to catch even a mere glimpse of a distant black hole. The pages are the equivalent of five ...

What could ducks splashing in a pond, the Pharrell Williams song "Happy" and a planet-spanning telescope possibly have to do with each other?