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The Heising-Simons Foundation announced Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb as a recipient of the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. With a PhD in Physics from the University of Montreal and currently a Margaret Burbidge Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Piaulet-Ghorayeb is among eight fellows selected for 2026.

On trip to Chilean telescope, UChicago undergrad class sheds new light on evolution of earliest stars

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the elements—and how massive supernovae reshaped the cosmos

Unique UChicago-led instrument PUEO caught a ride aboard a NASA balloon in search of high-energy neutrinos

XRISM satellite allows UChicago scientists to directly detect turbulence driven by Perseus, M87 black holes

Atmospheric study finds surprises about our largest neighboring planet and its deep atmosphere

Faraway planet defies our understanding of planet formation, say UChicago scientists

A new technique gives astronomers — and the public — a different look at some of the largest objects in the universe. Developed using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory data, “X-arithmetic” classifies galaxy clusters and groups by their nature rather than appearance.

UChicago astrophysicists test a new piece of the sky to probe dark matter and dark energy

Research led by UChicago’s Eliza Kempton finds some ‘mini-Neptunes’ likely have solid surfaces rather than molten interiors

Pioneering cosmologist honored for landmark measurements of the Hubble Constant

An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists have been discovering more and more of these faraway planets—about 6,000 of them so far. But scientists think there are trillions more out there in the universe. 

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws

UChicago astrophysicists’ physics-based models suggest dark energy may be evolving

Professors Paolo Privitera (Astronomy & Astrophysics and KICP) and Andrew Cleland (PME) have received a 2025-2027 DARPA award to develop novel qubit-based detectors of low-energy neutrinos.  The UChicago-led consortium supported by the QuSeN (Quantum Sensing of Neutrinos) program includes Northwestern University, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of California San Diego and Fermilab.