Cosmic crash caught on camera
In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space rocks within a nearby planetary system. When...
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Northwestern–Argonne Collaboration Named Finalist for Prestigious Gordon Bell Prize
A groundbreaking large-scale simulation of the universe, created through a collaboration between Northwestern’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and Argonne...
CIERA’s Vicky Kalogera Featured on The Chicago Network’s HerStories Podcast
CIERA’s Vicky Kalogera was the subject of a newly released conversation on the HerStories Podcast, hosted by Maria Doughty, President and CEO of The...
Renowned astrophysicist Pieter van Dokkum to join Northwestern
Astrophysicist Pieter van Dokkum, a world-renowned expert in galaxy formation and evolution and a visionary in astronomical instrumentation and telescopes, will join Northwestern University as...
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...
CIERA’s Giles Novak Named 2025 APS Fellow for Pioneering Contributions to Astrophysics
October 10, 2025 — CIERA is proud to announce that faculty member Professor Giles Novak has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American...
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...
Northwestern Joins Draper Lab’s NASA NIAC Phase II Project on Next-Generation Space Propulsion
Northwestern postdoctoral researcher George Paul Winstone and collaborators have been awarded a subcontract as part of a The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase...
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...
Piramon Kumnurdmanee Awarded Quad Fellowship
On August 4, CIERA graduate student Piramon Kumnurdmanee was selected by the Institute of International Education (IIE) as one of 37 Quad Fellowship recipients...
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. ...