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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) consortium is conducting a five-year survey to map the large-scale structure of the Universe over one-third of the sky and 11 billion years of cosmic ...

Everything you’ve ever seen or experienced on Earth was once a nebulous collection of floating gas and dust. Science is starting to understand how those particles came to take the forms you recognize ...

How can we expand the limits of human knowledge further into the unknown? The Center for Astrophysics is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard College ...

The Greenland Telescope is an innovative research project that will help scientists explore some of the Universe's deepest mysteries, including the use of black holes to study gravity in conditions ...

The Galileo Project for the Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts ...

JADES will use guaranteed time in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cycle 1 to produce infrared imaging and spectroscopy of unprecedented depth in the two premier extragalactic deep fields, ...

Eta Aquarids & Waiting for a Nova! The first week of May brings the annual Eta Aquarid meteors, peaking on the 6th. And sometime in the next few months, astronomers predict a "new star" or nova ...

Modern astronomy requires the best telescopes, detectors, spacecraft, and other equipment. The scientists, engineers, and staff of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian participate in ...