Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin spent nearly a year in “utter bewilderment” after arriving at the Harvard College ...

WE must congratulate the authorities of Harvard College on the publication of the Annals of the Observatory. The volume is the result of a large portion of the work of the institution during the ...

Guided by fast radio bursts, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics have mapped how ordinary matter is distributed in the ...

A popular Reddit thread posted in mid-March 2025 claimed a 19th-century housekeeper named Williamina Fleming became an astronomer when the director of the Harvard Observatory got frustrated with ...

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard College Observatory, studies basic ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...