The Small Bodies Node (SBN) of NASA's Planetary Data System has named Matthew Payne director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC). Payne is currently acting director of the MPC and a scientis...

The Greenland Telescope is an innovative research project that will help scientists explore some of the Universe's deepest mysteries, including the use of black holes to study gravity in ...

Cambridge, MA -- An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most distant astronomical object ...

Shreyas Vissapragada, a soon-to-be postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been awarded the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foun...

Cambridge, MA -- It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting up the screen in large chunks and clusters. But this is not a video about insec...

GMACS is being developed for the entire Giant Magellan Telescope community by scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics and at the Steiner Institute in Sao Paulo Brazil.&nbs...

Simon John Elliott Radford Director of Hawaii Operations Submillimeter Array Submillimeter Array Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 645 North A'ohoku Place Hilo, Hawai'i 96720 USA Tel...

GMACS - Moderate Dispersion Optical Spectrograph GMACS is being developed for the entire Giant Magellan Telescope community by scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics and...

Cambridge, MA -- Lisa J. Kewley has been named the Director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), effective July 1, 2022. A world leader in the theoretical mod...