January

"It has been called an elegant solution to a difficult problem. The notion that mysterious dark matter, which holds galaxies together, is made of primordial black holes that formed when dense regions of early Universe gravitationally collapsed was laid...

Halton Arp attended Harvard, where he majored in astronomy. He graduated in 1949. Read more about his remarkable life. Sky and Telescope: Cosmologist Halton Arp (1927–2013) New York Times: Halton C. Arp, Astronomer Who Challenged Big Bang Theory, Dies at...

Alicia Soderberg studies the death of stars. Often, these final moments come as violent explosions known as . They're spectacular events, but catching one as it unfolds can be tricky. "You have to be in the right place at the right time, and often we're...

The 2014 Rossi prize goes to Douglas Finkbeiner, Tracy Slatyer, (Harvard PhD in Physics, 2010) and Meng Su (Harvard Ph.D. in Astrophysics, 2012) "for their discovery, in gamma rays, of the large unanticipated Galactic structure called the 'Fermi Bubbles."...