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For six years, the Dark Energy Survey catalogued the night sky with this telescope in Chile.

Discovery by UChicago astrophysicists may change our picture of how stars explode and elements are made

Rafael Luque has been named recipient of the 2023-2024 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.

Researchers have located "the perfect solar system", forged without the violent collisions that made our own a hotchpotch of different-sized planets

UChicago team chronicles dozens of women who worked and made discoveries in early 20th century.

Instruments would help us understand beginning, history, makeup of the universe

Assistant Professor | PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2021

Data to reveal flows of matter and energy close to black holes, elemental makeup of the universe

Congratulations to Clarke Esmerian for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on “Modeling Dust Production, Growth, and Destruction in Reionization-Era Galaxies”.

Congratulations to Rebecca Diesing for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on “Unraveling Particle Acceleration and the Nonthermal Universe”.

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. 

Exoplanet GJ 1214b is too hot to be habitable, but likely contains water vapor.

Improvements include upgraded receiver, solar panels to power the observatory and data processing pipeline.

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.

Diego Garza (Physics, Astrophysics, 2023) and Aster Taylor (Astrophysics, 2023) won the  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.