Tag: John Johnson

  • Nation & World

    She followed her star

    Moiya McTier ’16 blends her loves of space science and writing in a double concentration in astronomy and folklore and mythology, leading to a science fiction senior thesis.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Professors recognized for exceptional teaching in science

    Jene Golovchenko and John Johnson are the 2015 winners of the Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Cosmic ‘Death Star’ destroys a planet

    Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large, rocky object disintegrating in its death spiral around a distant white dwarf star. “We’re watching a solar system get destroyed,” noted a Harvard researcher.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Kepler ‘rising from the ashes’

    Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, the Kepler spacecraft is alive and working. The evidence comes from the discovery of a new super-Earth using data collected during Kepler’s “second life.”

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Astronomically close

    Earth-like planets potentially capable of supporting life may be right in our galactic neighborhood, according to researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the California Institute of Technology.

    5 minutes