Cambridge, MA - An international team of astronomers has successfully demonstrated a new technique to observe especially faint black holes by correcting for atmospheric effects on Earth. The technique ...

CfA astronomers helped lead a study discovering changes in the bright ring around M87's black hole, confirming the theoretical understanding of the variable and turbulent flow of material around black ...

A new study shows that planets bigger than Earth and smaller than Neptune are common outside the Solar System. These results are another example of how planetary systems can be different from our ...

On the evening of December 12, 1921, as 53-year old astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt succumbed to cancer, heavy rains fell from the skies over Cambridge, Massachusetts. After nearly 30 years at the ...

It is the first dormant stellar-mass black hole to be detected outside of the Milky Way galaxy, the team claims. "For the first time, our team got together to report on a black hole discovery, instead ...

A team of international astronomers have embarked on an exciting new project to hunt for planets forming around young stars. The exoALMA project, using the powerful Atacama Large ...

Using JWST, researchers may have found two exceptionally bright galaxies that existed just 450 and 350 million years after the big bang. Cambridge, MA – A few days after officially starting science ...

Smithsonian Aims To Provide a Telescope and STEM Curriculum to Every Rural School in America Cambridge, Mass. — The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is launching a nationwide strategic ...

Messier 82 (M82) is a luminous infrared galaxy about twelve million light-years away from the Milky Way. Its burst of star formation powers the radiation and drives a bipolar superwind that originates ...

About 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang gave rise to everything, everywhere, and everywhen—the entire known Universe. What caused the Big Bang? What happened that first moment at the beginning of ...