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...
Last month, an international group of astronomers gathered for the inaugural POSYDON School, an intensive training program dedicated to POSYDON, a groundbreaking software developed...
Christopher W. Stubbs, an astronomer and experimental physicist at Harvard University, will deliver the 2025 CIERA Annual Public Lecture at Northwestern University this week. ...
CIERA is pleased to announce that PhD students Gideon McFarland and Nathalie Jones have been selected as the recipients of the 2025–2026 Board of...
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...
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...
An international team of scientists, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has spotted one of the brightest fast radio bursts (FRBs) ever recorded — and pinpointed...
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)...
From August 4–8, the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern University hosted the sixth annual Code/Astro Workshop. Designed to...
CIERA’s Research Experiences for Teachers program inspires new classroom approaches through hands-on astronomy research Every summer, teachers across Chicago seek meaningful professional development opportunities—but...
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...
