The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could potentially be mistaken for natural celestial bodies Margherita Bassi The ...

Some time ago, astronomers from Harvard University announced the discovery of a new celestial object named 2018 CN41. However, they later had to retract the statement, explaining it was actually one ...

What was believed to be a new asteroid spotted flying close to our planet this month turned out to have Earthly, albeit unnatural, origins. On Jan. 2, the asteroid-tracking Minor Planet Center (MPC) ...

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (United States) had to withdraw the discovery when it realized that it was a car.

Lisa J. Kewley is the director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). She oversees about 800 Harvard and Smithsonian staff in eight scientific divisions across CfA’s nine major ...

On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. First ...

Earlier this month, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics identified what appeared to be a previously undiscovered asteroid orbiting precariously near the Earth. The next day, the center ...

Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. is astrophysicist and senior scientist at the George C. Marshall Institute, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the Solar, Stellar, and ...

After completing his PhD., Professor Cohen moved to the Harvard-Smithsonian center for astrophysics as an NSF fellow. He continued to work on studies of the solar corona, but at the same time began to ...

she was a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a James Arthur postdoctoral fellow at New York University, and a TED fellow. She is an Associate Professor ...

Neutron stars and black holes in X-ray binaries, pulsars, multi wavelength astronomy, time domain astrophysics. I joined UMass Lowell in Fall 2010, following postdoctoral research at Gemini ...

The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is one of the largest and most diverse astrophysical institutions in the world, where scientists carry out a broad program of research in ...