January

Bob Kirshner has been awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize, a fairly recent award supported by the Wolf Foundation of Tel Aviv. He shares this year's Physic prize with James Bjorken from Stanford University. For details, see http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News...

Astronomers, including Harvard's Courtney Dressing, announced on Tuesday that they had found eight new planets orbiting their stars at distances compatible with liquid water, bringing the total number of potentially habitable planets in the just-right...

One current and one former Harvard Astronomy student are featured in Forbes magazine list of 30 under 30 in science. The first is current Harvard student, Henry Lin, (at the ripe age of 19!). The second is a former graduate student, Tony Pan, who work as...