In the air people breathe, the water on Earth, the stars in the sky and more, atoms are the building blocks that make up the ...

"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, provide fresh insights into ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) — among the brightest and most enigmatic objects known in astrophysics.

The oxygen in a galaxy does not sit still. It spreads, thins out, piles up, and leaves behind a record of where stars formed, ...

The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2026 class. The NHFP enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any ...

Astronomers believe that there have been three generations of stars in the universe. The first, which are yet to be seen directly, were made of just hydrogen and helium. The Sun is among the last ones ...

Explore black hole discovery in astrophysics, from hidden stellar remnants to supermassive giants, and learn how scientists detect these invisible cosmic objects using light and gravitational waves.

Boston-area students gained career mentors, transferrable media production skills, and behind-the-scenes experiences at the ...

As an undergraduate astrophysics student at Peking University, I met Professor Charles Townes, the Nobel Prize-winning ...