Welcome to the Department of Astronomy at Harvard
University, located within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. 

Our department is young in spirit but has a century-old tradition of exceptional graduate students and faculty. Our teaching and research interests span the entire Universe with exciting observational and theoretical programs in cosmology, extra-solar planets, transients, star formation, black holes and high-energy astrophysics.

We are delighted to have you visit our vibrant academic home!

Professor Avi Loeb
Chair, Astronomy Department
Director, Institute for Theory & Computation
Harvard University