June

Sophia Sánchez-Maes has been awarded the Theory-Experiment Cross Training Fellowship (TEX) from the John Templeton Foundation. Under the fellowship, Sophia is studying solar plasma physics, focusing on flares, from both X-ray instrumentation and MHD...

Her fellow recipients can be seen here. Each year, the Simons Foundation requests nominations from a targeted list of institutions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland for the Simons Investigator programs. Simons Investigators are...

This is part of a series of spotlights on recent stellar graduates. Please follow t his link for the full story.

View a television interview with Avi Loeb on the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative , a project to visit the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, that some of our students and postdocs are involved in. http://www.newtv.org/video/innovation-showcase...

Dave Charbonneau has been awarded the 2016 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering. The award citation recognizes: "pioneering discoveries in the field of exoplanets and the development of novel observational...

Professor Daniel Eisenstein was selected by the Simons Foundation as a 2016 Simons Investigator. "The Simons Investigators program provides a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental...

Astronomers announced today that they have found the organic molecule methyl alcohol, or methanol, in the TW Hydrae protoplanetary disk. This is the first such detection of this chemical compound in a young planet-forming disk. Because methanol forms on...

"Our Earth consists of silicate rocks and an iron core with a thin veneer of water and life. But the first potentially habitable worlds to form might have been very different. New research suggests that planet formation in the early universe might have...

Congratulations 2016 Grads. In the picture: Maria Drout, Jason Dittmann, Ian Czekala, Aaron Bray, Greg Green Elisabeth Newton, Zack Slepian, Vicente Rodriguez-Lopez, Ana-Maria Piso, Lauren Woolsey