“That’s thanks to a new light-squeezing instrument that researchers installed in the experiment’s main machine: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Its Italian counterpart, Virgo,...
The Northwestern-based YSE team is excited to announce the start of the Young Supernova Experiment, a new transient discovery survey using the Pan-STARRS1...
Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère was named a Highly Cited Researcher in Space Science for 2019. This distinction, based on an analysis by the Web of...
A group of theoretical and observational astronomers from CIERA, Harvard, and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) have found that the rates...
“Five Northwestern University faculty members have been elected 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general...
On November 18, CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Cliff Johnson and his collaborator Clara Martínez-Vázquez were hoping to observe stars in a pair of nearby...
“…“For most of human history, the question of whether or not life exists elsewhere has belonged only within the philosophical realm,” said Northwestern’s Howard...
Alexander “Sasha” Tchekhovskoy, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University, was granted the highly-competitive 2020 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory...
“Be willing to give a chance to stuff that seems boring at first. The depth may astound you once you get through the beginning.”...
“(Inside Science) — In 2015, astronomers noticed that a star named KIC 8462852 was flickering unusually. Some researchers suggested that the observations could potentially...
CIERA’s 11th annual public lecture was presented by award-winning author and Yale professor Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan at Cahn Auditorium on October 24. Natarajan...
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Dearborn Observatory participated in the fifth annual Open House Chicago festival by welcoming over 1400 visitors to the historic telescope...
