First Step on the Way to a Video of the Black Hole In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by ...

A nearby star that may host a planet or two could provide a clue about whether planets orbiting the smallest stars can ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X ...

Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X ...

Astronomers have unveiled an explosive cosmic fireworks display of stars interacting with their environment. This dazzling ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

one of the paper’s lead authors and a researcher at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, in a center release. “This new ...

The land for the observatory was formally acquired in 2018 and its conceptualisation, layout, and initiation were led by Dr. Ramkrishna Das, Dr. Soumen Mandal, and Dr. Tapas Baug, from the Department ...

division was founded in 1973 through the merging of high-energy scientists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory with a new group led by Dr. Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002).

The legacy of Arecibo's nearly 60 years of astronomy research is strong, even after its loss in a dramatic 2020 collapse. Arecibo Observatory, located in Puerto Rico, was the world's second ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.