The supermassive black hole (SMBH) at our galaxy's core, Sagittarius A*, is modest in size with only 4.15 million solar-masses. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) recently released a drama...

Cambridge, MA – An international research team from China, the U.S., and Germany, including Qizhou Zhang at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has used the ALMA Obse...

The structure of the universe is often described as being a cosmic web of filaments, nodes, and voids, with the nodes being clusters of galaxies, the largest gravitationally bound objects...

Cambridge, Mass. – A young pulsar is blazing through the Milky Way at a speed of over a million miles per hour. This stellar speedster, witnessed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, is o...

Cambridge, Mass. – Arnab Sarkar, a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), has revealed data and images that — for the first time — confirm th...

Cambridge, MA – Astronomers studying the structure of the Milky Way galaxy have released the highest-resolution 3D view of the Orion star-forming region. The image and interactive figure ...

On Thursday, May 27, eight students in the Department of Astronomy officially earned their doctoral degrees in astrophysics.The graduates were: Boryana Hadzhiyska, John A. Lewis III, Nina...

Mining the asteroids for resources like iron, precious metals, water, or other valuable species may someday become profitable. Mining will probably starting with Near Earth Objects (NEOs)...

Star formation is arguably the most important process in the universe. Over their lifetimes, and then with their deaths, stars produce of all the chemical elements except for hydrogen and...

The answers that little kids give to the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" often change from week to week. Not so for Rachel Nere.