Cambridge, Mass – The telescope's array of highly sensitive instruments was trained on the atmosphere of a "hot Saturn" — a planet about as massive as Saturn orbiting a star some 700...

Cambridge, MA – Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are some of the most powerful and luminous cosmic explosions since the Big Bang. Despite this, only a few of these short flashes of radiation...

  Cambridge, Mass. – A new study has revealed the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy. For decades, astronomers thought this cloud of stars&n...

Cambridge, MA – A few days after officially starting science operations, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope propelled astronomers into a realm of early galaxies, previously hidden beyond t...

Cambridge, MA – Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth, which the researchers have dubbed Gaia BH1. The dormant black hole weighs about 10 times the mass of the Sun a...

Cambridge, MA – A team of astrophysicists say that cosmic inflation — a point in the universe's infancy when space-time expanded exponentially, and what physicists really refer to when th...

Cambridge, MA – Astrophysicists have performed a powerful new analysis that places the most precise limits yet on the composition and evolution of the universe. With this analysis, dubbed...

Cambridge, MA– In October 2018, a small star was ripped to shreds when it wandered too close to a black hole in a galaxy located 665 million light years away from Earth. Though it may sou...

Cambridge, MA – Earlier this year a machine learning algorithm identified up to 5,000 potential gravitational lenses that could transform our ability to chart the evolution of galaxies si...

Lisa Kewley assumed her new role as director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, diving headfirst into the job, which involves overseeing some 800 Harvard and Smit...