Astronomy
Astronomy Center
The Astronomy Center is home to Professor Avi Loeb, who is conducting research on the interstellar objects in search of alien life.
Harvard Undergrad, Professor Identify First Interstellar Meteor, Say It Could Support Theories of Life in Other Solar Systems
Astronomy Department Chair and Professor Avi Loeb teamed up with an undergraduate to identify the first interstellar meteor ever reported in our solar system.
Harvard Astronomers Help Capture First-Ever Image of Black Hole
A research group led by a Harvard scientist unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole Wednesday morning, drawing praise from both the scientific community and the general public.
Following 2017 Controversy Over Origins of the Universe, New Paper Offers Test for Cosmic Inflation
Harvard astronomers have identified a cosmic signature that might help scientists understand what happened before the Big Bang. The paper provides a possible test to determine what happened before the Big Bang, a question that has long puzzled physicists and astronomers alike.
Or Graur: CRLS
Or Graur is an Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow and the Director of the Harvard Science Research Mentoring Program.
New Harvard Study ‘Galactic Panspermia’ Posits Transfer of Life Between Planets
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recently released a study about an astronomical theory called panspermia.
Undergrads Spearhead Repairs to Loomis-Michael Observatory Telescope
The changes are minor, but long overdue, according to Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe President Rodrigo E. Cordova ’19.
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.”
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.
