Astronomy and Astrophysics

Phoenix galaxy cluster

Astronomers use giant galaxy cluster as X-ray magnifying lens

Gemini Observatory

Nearly a decade in the making, exoplanet-hunting instrument installed in Hawaii

South Pole Telescope

Ambitious project to map the Big Bang’s afterglow earns NSF funding

Merging black holes

Lecture series to examine growing research on gravitational waves

Kepler mission rendering

New exoplanet is smallest to be precisely measured

Red giants

New measure of Hubble constant adds to mystery about universe’s expansion rate

Plasma in distant galaxy cluster

Scientists use X-rays from faraway galaxy cluster to reveal secrets of plasma

First image of supermassive black hole

UChicago scientists help capture first image of a black hole

Neutron star collision

How to use gravitational waves to measure the expansion of the universe

Exoplanet

Lecture to explore the hunt for other worlds, life on other planets