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"A vibrant scientific culture encourages many interpretations of evidence, argues Avi Loeb. Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/good-data-are-not-enough-1.20906

The Harvard Astronomy department endorses the Code of Ethics of the American Astronomical Society and abides by its guiding principles.

The Harvard Gazette features Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin who was promoted as the first woman to receive a full-time, non-female-only professorship from Harvard College. Link: Written in the Stars

arXive Paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.07345v1.pdf Gizmodo: " Astronomer Avi Loeb Is Here to Talk to You About Exoplanets" NY Times: “ One star over, a planet that might be another Earth” Associated Press: “ Jackpot: Scientists find Earth-like planet at...

CFA Press Release: "The universe is 13.8 billion years old, while our planet formed just 4.5 billion years ago. Some scientists think this time gap means that life on other planets could be billions of years older than ours. However, new theoretical work...

"Astronomers Aaron Smith and Volker Bromm of The University of Texas at Austin, working with Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have discovered evidence for an unusual kind of black hole born extremely early in the universe. They...

View a television interview with Avi Loeb on the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative , a project to visit the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, that some of our students and postdocs are involved in. http://www.newtv.org/video/innovation-showcase...

Dave Charbonneau has been awarded the 2016 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering. The award citation recognizes: "pioneering discoveries in the field of exoplanets and the development of novel observational...

Professor Daniel Eisenstein was selected by the Simons Foundation as a 2016 Simons Investigator. "The Simons Investigators program provides a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental...

Astronomers announced today that they have found the organic molecule methyl alcohol, or methanol, in the TW Hydrae protoplanetary disk. This is the first such detection of this chemical compound in a young planet-forming disk. Because methanol forms on...