2024
Congratulations to Dr. Mandy Chen
April 23, 2024
Congratulations to Mandy Chen for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Toward a Physical Understanding of the Dynamic Circumgalactic Medium"
Congratulations to Dr. Jason Poh
April 22, 2024
Congratulations to Jason Poh for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "Strong Gravitational Lensing Science in the Era of Large Astronomical Surveys".
Congratulations to Dr. Maya Mallaby-Kay
April 12, 2024
Congratulations to Maya Mallaby-Kay for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Probing the Large Scale Structure of our Universe with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope".
Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Bryant
April 10, 2024
Congratulations to Andrea Bryant for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "HYPOTHETICAL ICY MOON SEISMIC PROFILES FOR COMPARISON TO FUTURE SEISMIC DATA"
Rafael Luque and Lily Zhao were awarded NASA Hubble Fellowships
April 2, 2024
Rafael Luque "Understanding the origin and nature of sub-Neptunes" and Lily Zhao "Enabling Radial Velocity Detection of Earth-Twins Through Data-Driven Algorithms and Community Collaboration"
“Initial results from South Pole Telescope SPT-3G camera hint at future insights about our universe”, UChicago News
February 29, 2024
New data on the cosmic microwave background released from upgrade with 10 times more detectors
“Final supernova results from Dark Energy Survey offer unique insights into expansion of universe”, UChicago News
January 18, 2024
For six years, the Dark Energy Survey catalogued the night sky with this telescope in Chile.
“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”.