Join the F.L. Whipple Observatory and friends for a Nationwide Livestream Solarbration on June 20, 2020 in honor of International SUNday! Astronomers from Smithsonian Astrophysical Obser...

Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are dark patches of cold dust and gas seen in the sky against the bright diffuse infrared glow of warm dust in our galaxy. These IRDCs, massive and rich in mo...

Cambridge, MA - Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI), have shed light on how black holes grow over time by developin...

Cambridge, MA - Scientists in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium today announced at the 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that they have detected gamma...

Astronomers studying how star formation evolved over cosmic time have discovered that quiescent galaxies (galaxies that are currently not making many new stars) frequently have active gal...

Massive galaxies in the local universe, in order to be large today, probably began forming their stars in the early universe. Astronomers do indeed see significantly enhanced star-formati...

Join Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and our friends for a Nationwide Livestream Star Party, on May 22, 2020! This event starts at 7 pm Pacific Time (8 pm Mountain, 9 pm Central, 10...

Of the roughly 4300 exoplanets confirmed to date, about ten percent of them are classified as "hot Jupiters." These are planets with masses between about 0.4 and 12 Jupiter-masses and orb...

Our Milky Way is a member of a cluster of galaxies, the co-called "Local Group," about fifty galaxies whose other large member is Andromeda about 2.3 million light-years away. Most galaxi...

Understanding Not Just Facts Science is much greater than a set of facts that can be memorized. The concepts linking those facts together are far more important, but concepts are also mo...