Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is pleased to present a collection of 9 models that were created using images generated by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The launch of this collection ...

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Data Sonification: M16 (Eagle Nebula, "Pillars of Creation") Optical Only Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Data Sonification: M87 Smithsonian Astrophysical ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.

She has worked for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory since 1998. Her current research includes sonification of spatial data, machine learning as applied ...

Researchers have admitted to mistakenly identifying Elon Musk's car as a near-Earth asteroid, highlighting the importance ...

In a press conference last week at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Scott Wolk of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory presented his findings on Wolf 359, a red dwarf star ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

It consists of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The center's main facility is located between Concord Avenue and Garden Street, with its mailing ...

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