March

Alyssa A. Goodman, Harvard professor of astronomy and research associate of the Smithsonian Institution, has been selected the 2015 Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation. The award will be presented March 27. Read More: Harvard Gazette

Detection and characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres, with emphasis on developing new observational techniques to study the atmospheres of the Earth-like planets to be discovered by the NASA TESS mission. Website Email Contact: Dr. Mercedes (Mlopez...

Celebrating the Impact of New Ideas and New Discoveries Sarah Rugheimer, Harvard Astronomy Graduate Student, was one of the eight selected Harvard Scholars who joined President Faust, Provost Alan Garber, FAS Dean Mike Smith, and GSAS Dean Xiao-Li Meng as...

"Four billion years from now, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with our large spiraled neighbor, Andromeda. The galaxies as we know them will not survive. In fact, our solar system is going to outlive our galaxy. At that point, the sun will not yet...

"The landscape in Chile’s Atacama desert is Martian-like: dry, barren and flanked by volcanoes, and its high altitude and unpolluted skies make it a prime spot for stargazing. It was there, after a full night of such observation — and over a 4 p.m...

For information on BICEP2 2014 Results. Go to: http://bicepkeck.org/ CFA Press Release: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2014-05 Selected Press: NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/science/space/detection-of-waves-in-s…...

Harvard Astronomy Undergraduate Alumni Neil deGrasse Tyson is picking up where Carl Sagan left off in a new series called "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey." Links: NY Times: A Successor to Sagan Reboots ‘Cosmos’