astrophysics

A Team of Women Is Unearthing the Forgotten Legacy of Harvard’s Women ‘Computers’

The Sexism of Astrophysics and Why Its Women Have It Much Less Stellar

Remembering C.V. Vishveshwara, the Quasimodo of Black Holes

Vera Rubin. Credit: NSF

Vera Rubin, Astrophysicist Who Cinched Evidence for Dark Matter

How We’re Helping The Gaia Mission Map a Billion Stars to Unparalleled Precision

This artist’s impression shows the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The double star Alpha Centauri AB also appears in the image between the planet and Proxima itself. Proxima b is a little more massive than the Earth and orbits in the habitable zone around Proxima Centauri, where the temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. Caption and credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Scientists Believe a Potentially Habitable World Orbits Sun’s Closest Star