Cambridge, MA Interstellar travelers might want to detour around the star system TW Hydrae to avoid a messy planetary construction site. Astronomer David Wilner of the Harvard-Smithsonia...

Cambridge, MA Giovanni Fazio, a senior physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and lecturer in the Astronomy Department, Harvard University, has been awarded NASA's presti...

Cambridge, MA Getting Ready to Fingerprint a CometThe Submillimeter Array (SMA) will be ready and watching when NASA's Deep Impact probe strikes the nucleus of Comet Tempel 1 on July 4th...

Cambridge, MA Astronomers find jets everywhere when they look into space. Small jets spout from newborn stars, while huge jets blast out of the centers of galaxies. Yet despite their com...

Cambridge, MA Meeting this week in Cambridge, Mass., astronomers using the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, confirmed, for the first time, that many of the objects termed ...

Cambridge, MA Astronomers are meeting this week in Cambridge, Mass., to discuss recent advances generated by a new astronomical facility-the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea, Hawai...

Cambridge, MA In 1987, earthbound observers saw a star explode in the nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Astronomers eagerly studied this supernova-the closest seen i...

Cambridge, MA For the first time, amateur and professional astronomers have teamed up to discover a new planet circling a distant star. The planet was detected by looking for the effect ...

Cambridge, MA Reporting in the May 12th issue of Nature, astronomers announced that they have penetrated the heart of the universe's most powerful explosion - a gamma-ray burst (GRB). Us...

Cambridge, MA The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and University of Arizona have announced the appointment of Dr. Faith Vilas as the new director of the MMT Observatory at Mount Ho...