Astronomy
Breakthrough Starshot Initiative Aims to Discover Life in Other Solar Systems
Loeb said in an interview Monday that one of Breakthrough Starshot’s greatest challenges is designing a lightweight spacecraft that can travel at a fifth of the speed of light.
Harvard, MIT, and Cambridge Researchers Refine Origin of Life Hypothesis
Researchers from Harvard, MIT, and the University of Cambridge have found that sulfur compounds in the early earth’s atmosphere may have contributed to the origins of life.
Astrophysicists Develop New Universe Simulation
Scientists at Harvard and five other institutions around the world have developed a new computer simulation of the universe.
Astronomers Discuss Black Holes, Cosmic Radiation at Luncheon
About a hundred astronomers and visiting scholars gathered at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to hear a presentation on astronomy's latest advancements.
Breakthrough Starshot
I warn him that I study history, but he is encouraging. “Well, history begins with the big bang.”
Eyes to the Sky: Annie Jump Cannon and the Harvard Observatory
While Cannon’s system of classification was respected by and essential to the astronomical community, it was dubbed the “Harvard System,” erasing Cannon’s name from its history.
Digitizing the Sky
In the 1880s, Edward Charles Pickering, a stout Harvard astronomer whose deeply angled eyebrows recall an angry cartoon character, took on a new project: photographing the entire sky.
Harvard Astronomer, Institute Offer Support for Students of Color in Sciences
Astronomy Professor John A. Johnson tells his students almost every lecture that there is no such thing as a natural astrophysicist.
Astrophysics Center
One of the telescope domes at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at 60 Garden Street in Cambridge.
Astronomy Enthusiasts Over The Moon After Exoplanet Discovery
Harvard astronomy scholars and enthusiasts say they are thrilled at the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby star Trappist-1.
Explosions Could Provide Clues About First Stars, Fellow Says
A set of explosions that happened thousands of years ago could provide clues about the formation of the earliest stars, according to Robert A. Simcoe, a research fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Written in the Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was promoted as the first woman to receive a full-time, non-female-only professorship from Harvard College.
Black Hole Initiative Receives $7.2 Million in Funding
Harvard’s newly formed Black Hole Initiative received funding two weeks after world-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking spoke about the initiative to a packed Sanders Theatre on April 19.
At Black Hole Talk, Stephen Hawking Draws Massive Audience
World-famous theoretical cosmologist Stephen W. Hawking discussed the history of and recent breakthroughs in research on black holes at the inauguration of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative.
