Students tackle real-world problems at CIERA-hosted Space Apps Challenge
More than 250 students—ranging from grade schoolers to graduate students—gathered both in-person and online at Chicago’s 1871 on Oct. 4–5, 2025, for the city’s...
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A New Eye on the Universe: Harvard Physicist Christopher Stubbs Unveils the Promise of the Rubin Observatory at CIERA Annual Public Lecture
On Friday, October 3, 2025, a record-breaking audience of 350 filled Northwestern’s Ryan Auditorium for the Annual Public Lecture hosted by the Center for...
Webb Telescope unveils doomed star hidden in dust
A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star before it exploded. Using NASA’s James Webb...
Missing wind from Milky Way’s giant black hole finally found
At the heart of every large galaxy is a supermassive black hole millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun. And whenever...
CIERA Hosts First Posydon School, Training the Next Generation of Binary Star Modelers
Last month, an international group of astronomers gathered for the inaugural POSYDON School, an intensive training program dedicated to POSYDON, a groundbreaking software developed...
Former CIERA Postdoctoral Researcher Ore Gottlieb honored as finalist of the 2025 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists
Ore Gottlieb, PhD, a former CIERA postdoctoral researcher, will be honored today as a Finalist of the 2025 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists....
Dark universe and Rubin Observatory will be explored in public lecture
Christopher W. Stubbs, an astronomer and experimental physicist at Harvard University, will deliver the 2025 CIERA Annual Public Lecture at Northwestern University this week. ...
Gravitational-wave detection verifies Stephen Hawking’s theorem
Nearly a decade has passed since an international team of scientists, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, first detected gravitational waves — a historic discovery that...
CIERA Fellows Celebrate 15 Years of Astrophysics Innovation at Fellows@15 Conference
In a vibrant celebration of collaboration and discovery, over 80 leading faculty and postdoctoral researchers from across the U.S. and Canada converged at Northwestern...
CIERA’s 2025 REU Program Prepares the Next Generation of Interdisciplinary Astrophysicists
Northwestern University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) once again welcomed a cohort of promising undergraduate researchers to its prestigious National...
First-of-its-kind supernova reveals inner workings of a dying star
An international team of scientists, led by Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected a never-before-seen type of exploding star, or supernova, that is rich with...
REACH 2025 Wraps Another Stellar Summer at CIERA
This summer, 51 high school students from across the country came together at Northwestern University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)...