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Determining the Mass of the Milky Way Using Hypervelocity Stars
Researchers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have devised a new way to measure the mass of our galaxy…
New Study Says a Fast Radio Burst Happens Every Second in the Universe
A new study by a team of researchers from the CfA argues that a Fast Radio Burst happens with every…
Ultraviolet Light Could Point the Way To Life Throughout the Universe
A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics indicates that UV radiation may be the key to finding…
Even Though Red Dwarfs Have Long Lasting Habitable Zones, They’d be Brutal to Life
Two new studies from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have thrown some cold water on the notion that planets…
The Sun Probably Lost a Binary Twin Billions of Years Ago
According to a new study by a research team from UC Berkeley and Harvard, our Sun may have had a…
Solar Probe Plus Will ‘Touch’ The Sun
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Draper are helping NASA to develop the Solar Probe Plus, the first spacecraft that will…
Stars at the Edge of our Galaxy May Have Been Stolen
A new study produced by astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows how some of the most distant stars in…
Turns out Proxima Centauri is Strikingly Similar to our Sun
Contrary to what we previously though, Proxima Centauri has some striking similarities to our Sun, which includes a solar cycle
Venus-like Exoplanet 39 Light Years Distant Is Probably Baked & Sterile
A team of scientist from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics may have unlocked the secret behind the Venus-like exoplanet Gf…
Kepler Finds an Earth-Sized “Gas Giant”
Gas planets aren't always bloated, monstrous worlds the size of Jupiter or Saturn (or larger) they can also apparently be…