
Supernova’s ‘trapped’ jet reveals source of fast X-ray transient
An international team of astrophysicists, led by Northwestern University and the University of Leicester in England, has uncovered a possible origin of fast X-ray...
An international team of astrophysicists, led by Northwestern University and the University of Leicester in England, has uncovered a possible origin of fast X-ray...
The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based telescope currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is one vital step closer toward completion. Earlier...
With the release of its first images yesterday, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is one giant step closer to launching its Legacy...
On May 7, the Department of Physics and Astronomy announced that graduate student Ilia Kiato has been awarded a Dr. John N. Nicholson Fellowship...
Rubin will observe more variable stars than any previous observatory, enabling investigations into the mechanisms that drive their varying brightness and mapping the outer...
On April 8, 2025, Northwestern Information Technology (NUIT) hosted its annual CoDEx Symposium, a full-day event that brings together researchers from across campus to...
On Monday, April 21st, The Graduate School (TGS) of Northwestern University announced that Nabeel Rehemtulla was one of only eight students awarded a Presidential...
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) continues to support top early-career astrophysicists, awarding 24 new fellowships in its competitive 2025 class. This program allows...
Welcome New Postdoctoral Researchers! We are delighted to announce fourteen postdocs will be joining the CIERA community in fall 2025. Please join us in...
From March 5–8, 2025, CIERA hosted the inaugural La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4) Team Meeting, bringing together over 50 researchers from across the...
White dwarf and red dwarf bump together to emit a radio blast every two hours An international team of astronomers, including a Northwestern University...
On February 20, 2025, Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) announced the award recipients in the first year of Scialog: Early Science with the...