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Credit: NASA/JPL- Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC) How did the first stars and galaxies bring the young universe out of its dark ages and into the light? Three prominent researchers, including Harvard Astronomy Professor Avi Loeb, discuss how new instruments and...

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Swift The cores of most galaxies are thought to harbor black holes with masses of a million or more suns. But many remain unseen until an unlucky star passes too close and is pulled apart by tidal forces. The stellar...

This article appeared in Nature magazine entitled " Tough Science: Five Experiments as Hard as Finding the Higgs," by science writer Nicola Jones,The five projects with highlighted researchers that he selected are: Distant signs of Life ( Charbonneau)...

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...

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.

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...