2011

Read about Harvard Astronomy Professor Jim Moran's successful triathalons featured in the Concord Dispatch. "Concordian James Moran is strong. He has to be, since his sport of choice for the last decade is competing in triathlons. Moran has competed in...

Astronomers from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft announced Tuesday that they had discovered a pair of planets the size of Earth orbiting a distant star. The new planets, one about as big as Earth and the other slightly smaller than Venus, are the smallest yet...

Dimitar Sasselov has a book entitled The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet coming out January 2012. Description In the past year, we have witnessed unprecedented breakthroughs in...

Astronomy Magazine's Top 10 space stories of the year featured two stories that include two of our faculty. The Number Eight story belongs Douglas Finkbeiner and two of his graduate students. Edo Berger plays a key part in the Number Four space story.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 Saul Perlmutter, Harvard Physics undergraduate, and Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess both Harvard Astronomy PhDs were recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize for " for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the...

Link to Time Magazine article Before Ed Turner and Avi Loeb tell you about their research, they want to make one thing perfectly clear: they do not claim there's a city on Pluto. But if there were, they say, we could see it. And, as they suggest in a...

By Karen Weintraub Cambridge, Massachusetts November 8, 2011 Hollywood is wrong about aliens. They don't have oddly shaped heads, bulging eyes or even an eery green hue. Dimitar Sasselov is pretty convinced of that. He's not even sure we'll know them when...