Astronomy and Astrophysics

South Pole Telescope

Earth-sized telescope expands to the South Pole to see black holes in detail

Apr 21, 2015

Nine pint-sized galaxies found orbiting Milky Way

Postdoctoral research fellow Keith Bechtol helps lead Dark Energy Survey analysis, which led to discoveries of potential dwarf galaxies

Mar 10, 2015

Exoplanet rendering

Cosmic detectives discover missing star in ultimate of dead ends

Sep 25, 2014

Do we live in a 2-D hologram?

Aug 26, 2014

Wendy Freedman

Wendy Freedman, world-leading astronomer, joins UChicago faculty

Aug 7, 2014

Fermi Institute announces recipients of Nathan Sugarman research awards

Jun 4, 2014

International collaboration replicates amplification of cosmic magnetic fields

Jun 2, 2014

Scientists from UChicago, lab affiliates headed for AAAS annual meeting

Feb 7, 2014

exoplanet

UChicago researchers use Hubble Telescope to reveal cloudy weather on alien world

Dec 31, 2013

Michael S. Turner to address ‘Quarks and the Cosmos’ in April 17 Ryerson Lecture

Apr 11, 2013