Cambridge, MA - Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the ...

Quasars are galaxies with massive black holes at their cores from which vast amounts of energy are being radiated. So much light is emitted that the nucleus of a quasar is much brighter ...

Cambridge, MA - Disks of dust and gas that surround young stars are the formation sites of planets. New images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveal never...

Cambridge, MA - Scientists have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the NSF's Jansky Very Large Array to determine the likely trigger for the most recent supernova in t...

The staff at CfA's Wolbach Library and Information Center are working with astrophysicists, engineers, and data scientists to build a new spacecraft as the first step in creating the infr...

We live in a dramatic epoch of astrophysics. Breakthrough discoveries like exoplanets, gravity waves from merging black holes, or cosmic acceleration seem to arrive every decade, or even ...

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Young massive star clusters are systems of stars with more than about ten thousand solar-masses of material and ages less than about one hundred million years that are gravitationally bou...

Cambridge, MA - Nearly four billion years ago, life arose on Earth. Life appeared because our planet had a rocky surface, liquid water, and a blanketing atmosphere. But life thrived th...

Globular clusters are gravitationally bound, roughly spherical ensembles of stars. Some contain as many as a million stars, and their sizes are as small as only tens of light-years in dia...