Quasars are among the most powerful energy sources known -- some are as luminous as one hundred thousand Milky Way galaxies. Astronomers know that quasars have massive black holes at the...

Dr. Margaret Geller has been awarded the 2013 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society (APS). Established in 1988, the Lilienfeld Prize recognizes a most outstanding...

Almost thirty years ago the Infrared Astronomy Satellite, IRAS, discovered that the universe contained many fabulously luminous galaxies, some of them more than a thousand times brighter ...

Dr. Laurence Rothman was awarded the Ioannes Marcus Marci medal by the Czech Spectroscopic Society on September 6, 2012, at the 22nd International Conference on High Resolution Molecular ...

Cambridge, MA Using a continent-spanning telescope, an international team of astronomers has peered to the edge of a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. For the first time, the...

Professor Irwin Shapiro has been selected to receive the 2013 Einstein Prize of the American Physical Society. Awarded biennially since 2003, the Einstein Prize consists of $10,000 and a ...

Supernovae, the explosive deaths of massive stars, are among the mostmomentous events in the cosmos because they disburse into space all of the chemical elements that were produced inside...

Observatory Night lectures will take place on the third Thursday of the month from September through November. This popular public program offers astronomy talks on a variety of timely t...

Cambridge, MA At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. Stars crowd each other as they whiz through space like cars on a ...

It started with an offhand remark, an unusual characterization for astronomers talking about stars: "They’re going off like popcorn." The comment referred to the fact that stars are explo...