2024
“Scientists find an unusual star that hints at a new way stars can die”, UChicago News
January 11, 2024
Discovery by UChicago astrophysicists may change our picture of how stars explode and elements are made
2023
Rafael Luque won a 2023-2024 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
December 18, 2023
Rafael Luque has been named recipient of the 2023-2024 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.
“‘Perfect solar system’ found in search for alien life”, by Pallab Ghosh, BBC
November 29, 2023
Researchers have located "the perfect solar system", forged without the violent collisions that made our own a hotchpotch of different-sized planets
“Records reveal hidden history of female astronomers at Yerkes Observatory”, UChicago News
November 9, 2023
UChicago team chronicles dozens of women who worked and made discoveries in early 20th century.
“NSF awards up to $21.4M for design of next-gen telescopes to capture earliest moments of universe”, UChicago News
October 30, 2023
Instruments would help us understand beginning, history, makeup of the universe
Meet new faculty member: Diana Powell
October 3, 2023
Assistant Professor | PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2021
“XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays”, Uchicago News
September 12, 2023
Data to reveal flows of matter and energy close to black holes, elemental makeup of the universe
Congratulations to Dr. Clarke Esmerian
June 27, 2023
Congratulations to Clarke Esmerian for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on “Modeling Dust Production, Growth, and Destruction in Reionization-Era Galaxies”.
Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Diesing
May 26, 2023
Congratulations to Rebecca Diesing for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on “Unraveling Particle Acceleration and the Nonthermal Universe”.
“Answering big questions at the South Pole”, PSD News
May 17, 2023
Most people seek warmer destinations for travel to escape the tough Chicago winters. Brad Benson, on the other hand, sets his sights on the South Pole nearly every year. On his list of top reasons to visit: the intense cold creating extremely low levels of moisture in the air, dryer even than the highest mountain peaks in the world.
“Researchers get first up-close look at mysterious planet’s atmosphere”, UChicago News
May 11, 2023
Exoplanet GJ 1214b is too hot to be habitable, but likely contains water vapor.
“NSF awards $52M to upgrade Simons Observatory in Chile to explore origins of universe”, UChicago News
May 9, 2023
Improvements include upgraded receiver, solar panels to power the observatory and data processing pipeline.
“Prof. Wendy Freedman to present Ryerson Lecture on ‘Our Expanding Universe’ “, UChicago News
April 5, 2023
Prof. Wendy Freedman, a leading astronomer who has made fundamental measurements of our universe, will deliver the 2023 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture on May 15 at the Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago.
Congratulations Diego Garza and Congratulations Aster Taylor
April 5, 2023
Diego Garza (Physics, Astrophysics, 2023) and Aster Taylor (Astrophysics, 2023) won the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
New calibration of the ‘red giant method’ improves measurement of the Hubble constant
April 3, 2023
In a new paper in Nature Astronomy, Taylor Hoyt –who received his Ph.D from UChicago in 2022 and is currently a researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division – presents a new approach to calibrating the measurement of the universe’s present day expansion rate.