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 ...

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.

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 ...

This is a position of Astrophysicist (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow) in the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division. The purpose of this position is to work on observational and numerical ...

Samuel Yee, a soon-to-be postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), and Juliana García-Mejía, a doctoral student at the CfA, have been awarded 51 Pegasi b ...

Cambridge, Mass. – Two astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole to Earth: a ...

INTRODUCTION:The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is at the forefront, internationally, of the scientific exploration of the universe. SAO combines its resources with those of the Harvard ...

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is at the forefront, internationally, of the scientific exploration of the universe. SAO combines its resources with those of the Harvard College ...