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Illustration by David A. Aguilar/CfA A new study finds that researchers can detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a habitable planet orbiting a white dwarf (as shown in this artist’s illustration). Here the ghostly blue ring is a planetary nebula — hydrogen...

John Kovac, Assistant Professor in Harvard's Astronomy and Physics departments, has been awarded the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award by the National Science Foundation. NSF describes these grants as their "most prestigious awards in...

Harvard Astronomy graduate student Bekki Dawson and CFA Hubble postdoctoral fellow Matt Walker won the Block Prize at the Aspen Center for Physics Winter Conference this year. Organizers of each winter conference choose promising young physicists to...

GSAS Interviews Avi Loeb about the Astronomy Department, his new book, The First Galaxies in the Universe, and Astronomy. Read Article...

Photo shows Jim visiting the amateur radio club, BY1QH, in Tsinghua University in 2008. Harvard Astronomy Professor James Moran has been awarded the 2013 Grote Reber Gold Medal for lifetime innovative contributions to radio astronomy. Recent awardees...

Harvard graduate students Nicholas Stone and Rebekah Dawson were the recipients of the 2012 Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize—established through the support of his father, John Doxsey, and other friends, family, and colleagues—provides graduate students or...

Harvard Astronomy graduate student Nathan Sanders was recently awarded Harvard's "Bowdoin Prize in the Natural Sciences" for his essay entitled "Observing the Twenty-First Century Sky and Understanding the Universe." For more info see here: http://isites...

Avi Loeb's book has been selected for the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award by the American Astronomical Society. The award is for Avi's first book, " How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?", published by Princeton University Press in 2010. You may...

THE DEEP END: Images of a small patch of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field have revealed several of the most distant galaxies ever seen. The newfound galaxies and their associated redshifts are labeled on the Hubble image. Image: NASA/ESA Read...

The HEAD Executive Committee has selected: Dr. Joey Neilsen for the 2012-2013 HEAD Dissertation Prize for his thesis: " Winds of Change: The Physics of Accretion, Ejection, and X-ray Variability in GRS1915+105" Dr. Neilsen received his PhD in 2011 from...