The Giant Magellan Telescope received official approval from the National Science Foundation (NSF) confirming that the observatory will advance into its Major Facilities Final Design Phase, one of the ...

A new eye-catching compilation of images is being released that features data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory along with a host of other telescopes. including NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

Scientists now estimate that there are over a trillion galaxies in the Universe. Many follow broad classification patterns, but no two are exactly alike. The variety of galaxies we see gives us a ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is one of NASA’s premier space telescopes, in operation since 1999. The day-to-day control of the telescope, including telling it what part of the sky to observe, is ...

Cambridge, MA — A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond Neptune, from a class known as trans-Neptunian objects, that is ...

Cambridge, MA-- Astronomers analyzing 3D maps of the shapes and sizes of nearby molecular clouds have discovered a gigantic cavity in space. The sphere-shaped void, described today in The ...

In 2017, three observatories managed by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian participated in the largest simultaneous observing campaign ever undertaken on a supermassive black hole ...

Cambridge, MA - Astronomers using data from NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this ...

Evidence of extreme pre-explosion mass loss in a recently discovered supernova indicates there may be more going on in the last year of a star's life than previously thought.

A photo of the Scorpius-Centaurus Association. Astronomers have identified hundreds of new stars in this nearby association that are smaller than the Sun and younger than about 30 million years, and ...

A new view begins to piece together the 3D puzzle of Orion and how Barnard's Loop may have formed. Led by researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, the work connects 3D data ...

Sheperd "Shep" Doeleman, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been named the recipient of the Georges Lemaître International Prize by the Louvain Foundation of ...