Astrochemistry

Jennifer Bergner wins the 2024 AAS Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy

January 11, 2024
Jennifer Bergner has been named the recipient of the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy for outstanding research and promise for future research by a female researcher within five years after earning her PhD.

Surprisingly simple explanation for alien comet ‘Oumuamua’s weird orbit

March 29, 2023

An artist’s depiction of the interstellar comet ‘Oumuamua

An artist’s depiction of the interstellar comet ‘Oumuamua, as it warmed up in its approach to the sun and outgassed hydrogen (white mist), which slightly altered its orbit. The comet, which is most likely pancake-shaped, is the first known object other than dust grains to visit our solar...

8 Teams Win Awards in Final Year of Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe

July 6, 2023

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, theHeising-Simons Foundation, the Kavli Foundation and NASA announce awards totaling more than $1 million to eight interdisciplinary teams in the final year of Scialog:...