April

Illustration courtesy of CfA Astronomers have found a planetary system orbiting the star Kepler-62. This five-planet system has two worlds in the habitable zone — the distance from their star at which they receive enough light and warmth for liquid water...

Science Magazine wrote a biographical article on Avi Loeb. From Cosmic Dawn To Milkomeda, And Beyond: The thoughts of Harvard theorist Avi Loeb traverse the universe, past and future—and he urges young researchers to be just as daring ( pdf)

Photograph by Jim Harrison Avi Loeb and Charles Alcock Read an interesting article about the Giant Magellan Telescope, published in the Harvard Magazine online. The online version is here: http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/05/seeing-stars The PDF file of...

Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer Stars align at astronomy reunion: Event draws researchers from around the world. Left: Ruth Murray-Clay (from left), David Latham, Sara Seager, David Charbonneau, and moderator Charles Alcock were some of the faculty...

Harvard Astronomy's Supernova Forensics group has teamed up with Astronomy 100 undergraduate students to unveil the nature of the peculiar SN2012au - a massive star that exploded some 75 million years ago. This energetic, slow-evolving and helium-rich...

Astronomy Department Chair Avi Loeb discussed the findings from the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite program that showed the universe as being a little older, containing a bit more mysterious dark matter, and expanding more slowly than previously...