The Universe Where We Live

This science theme pursues questions about our place in the Universe through theoretical, experimental and observational investigations of planets outside the Solar System (exoplanets), including their structure, evolution, and dynamics, in the search for habitable worlds and evidence of atmospheric biosignatures. 

Faculty Scientific Projects

Jacob Bean

Dan Fabrycky

Eliza Kempton

Arieh Konigl

Diana Powell

Leslie Rogers

MAROON-X: Radial Velocity Spectrograph

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Department of the Geophysical Sciences

Dorian Abbot

David Archer

Fred Ciesla 

Edwin Kite