2024
Congratulations to Irina Zhuravleva
December 13, 2024
Congratulations to Prof. Irina Zhuravleva on her promotion to tenure in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Congratulations to Chihway Chang
December 13, 2024
Congratulations to Prof. Chihway Chang on her promotion to tenure in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Wendy Freedman one of Nature’s 10 people who helped shape science in 2024
December 12, 2024
UChicago cosmologist recognized for pioneering work on Hubble constant measurements
Latest findings from the South Pole Telescope bolster our model of the universe
November 13, 2024
Analysis of cosmic microwave background reinforces Hubble constant measurement
Prof. Alex Drlica-Wagner selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society
October 4, 2024
The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publication, or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. They may also have made significant contributions to the teaching of physics or service and participation in the activities of the Society.
‘Weird’ Ancient Galaxy Discovered by James Webb Space Telescope
September 26, 2024
A "totally new phenomenon" has been discovered by astronomers in a strange galaxy from the dawn of time.
NSF and Simons Foundation launch $20 million National AI Research Institute in Astronomy
September 18, 2024
SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution
Prof. Austin Joyce awarded a prestigious DOE Early Career Award
September 11, 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of 91 early career scientists from across the country who will receive a combined $138 million in funding for research covering a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence, fusion energy, and quantum.
Giant Magellan Telescope Mount Fabrication Begins
August 30, 2024
The Giant Magellan Telescope and Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc. today announced the start of manufacturing and assembly of the largest telescope mount built in the United States.
New Webb Telescope data suggests our model of the universe may hold up after all
August 22, 2024
UChicago-led analysis measures universe expansion rate, finds there may not be a ‘Hubble tension’
NASA’s Webb telescope peers into the boundary between day and night on a distant world
August 20, 2024
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have glimpsed tantalizing new details about what it’s like at the boundary of a tidally locked planet—that is, one where half of the planet is always exposed to its star, while the other is always shrouded in darkness.
Dan Hooper named director of WIPAC
July 31, 2024
Astronomy & Astrophysics and KICP Professor and FNAL Senior Scientist Dan Hooper has been selected as the new director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC).
Revived technology used to count individual photons from distant galaxies
June 27, 2024
Enabled by a U.S. Department of Energy program, a collaboration of scientists from Fermilab, UChicago, NOIRLab, and other institutions demonstrated that skipper-CCD detectors can be utilized to improve cosmology research.
Simons Observatory Begins Hunt for Echoes of the Big Bang in Universe’s Oldest Light
June 5, 2024
The observatory’s four telescopes will make the most precise measurements ever taken of the cosmic microwave background and reveal information about what happened just after the universe’s birth
Wendy Freedman has been awarded the Georges Lemaître International Prize
May 30, 2024
Prof. Freedman is a Canadian-American cosmologist at the University of Chicago who works in the area of refining measurement of the Hubble Constant. She is renowned for her work on Cepheid variable stars through a Hubble Space Telescope Key Project. Her work and accomplishments are closely connected to the big-bang theory of Georges Lemaître.