Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Author at Astronomy.com

Astronomers may have spotted a direct collapse black hole

Exoplanets, Planets

Universe’s first life might have been born on carbon planets

Exoplanets, Planets, Stars

A planet is forming in an Earth-like orbit around a young star

A gamma-ray burst hints that LIGO’s double black holes started as one massive star

Theorists propose a new method to probe the beginning of the universe

Exoplanets, Planets, Stars

Astronomers are eager to get a whiff of newfound Venus-like planet

Exoplanets, Planets, Stars

Disk gaps don’t always signal planets

Cosmic “death star” is destroying a planet

Alien Life, Exoplanets, Planets

Interstellar seeds could create oases of life

Alien Life, Cosmology, Stars

Water could have been abundant in the first billion years

Astronomers find runaway galaxies

Milky Way, Robotic Spaceflight

Spitzer, Ogle spot planet deep within our galaxy