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Dec 2024: PRIMA and AXIS in the news
Dec 2024: Posters at Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXXIV
Dec 2024: Atmospheric Evolution at Mars
Nov 2024: Congratulations Mia Bovill!
Nov 2024: STScI AstroScholars
Nov 2024: Comparative Planetology of Magnetic Effects in Ultrahot Jupiters: Trends in High-resolution Spectroscopy
Nov 2024: Meet the surprising, oddball worlds moving around our Solar System
Oct 2024: Ben Hord wins Robert H. Goddard award
Oct 2024: Electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational waves: review and lessons learned
Oct 2024: Hera Update
Oct 2024: Aurora skies!
Oct 2024: New Study Eases Concerns Over Possible "Doomsday" Asteroid Swarm
Oct 2024: UMD sweeps NASA Probe mission selections
Sep 2024: For 57 days this fall, Earth will have a second moon
Sep 2024: Minor planets, asteroids, comets and interplanetary dust within 30 au
Sep 2024: Toward Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy Using JWST/MIRI's Medium Resolution Spectrometer
Aug 2024: The Dynamical State of the Didymos System before and after the DART Impact
Aug 2024: Taking the Long View on Start of School
Aug 2024: Inhomogeneous terminators on the exoplanet WASP-39 b
Aug 2024: Mars and Jupiter pair up this week in a celestial dance unseen from Earth in years
Aug 2024: Comet caught strangely zigzagging its way through space
Aug 2024: Congratulations to Casey Honnibal for her Susan Mahan Niebur Early Career award!
Aug 2024: Congratulations Dr. Grell!!
Jul 2024: Hubble time award
Jul 2024: A Nearby Exoplanet Reeks of Rotten Eggs-And That's a Good Thing
Jul 2024: (16405) Testudo
Jul 2024: Communicating the Science of the Stars
Jun 2024: Joseph DeMartini awarded inaugural Schweickart Prize
Jun 2024: Bound star clusters observed in a lensed galaxy 460 Myr after the Big Bang
Jun 2024: Father's Day
Jun 2024: Season 2 results from the COMAP experiment
Jun 2024: On the Interpretation of Mid-Infrared Absorption Lines of Gas-Phase H2O as Observed by JWST/MIRI
Jun 2024: GRAD-MAP Summer Scholars
Jun 2024: Congratulations Mona Susanto!
Jun 2024: Congratulations Dr. Ih!!
Jun 2024: Commencement ceremony photos
Jun 2024: Chris Reynolds is the co-PI of a Chandra Legacy Program
Jun 2024: Congratulations to Sarah Waldych!
Jun 2024: A contact binary satellite of the asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh
May 2024: Aurora reports
May 2024: Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's Rising Graduate Scholars for 2024
May 2024: Black Hole Week
May 2024: ScholarGPS lists Richard Mushotzky as a Highly Ranked Scholar
May 2024: Benedikt Diemer joins foundational science study for LSST
May 2024: Departmental Prizes and Awards
May 2024: University of Maryland geologist to run simulation that helps astronauts prepare for the moon
May 2024: Incoming grad students
May 2024: Promotions
Apr 2024: Maryland Day 2024 a Huge Success
Apr 2024: Eclipse updates continue
Apr 2024: Congratulations Dr. Dittmann!!
Apr 2024: Dr. Megan Weiner Mansfield joins professorial faculty
Apr 2024: UMD Geologist Helped Develop Moonquake Detector for Astronauts' Surface Mission
Apr 2024: The April 2024 eclipse
Apr 2024: Awards (so many awards we need a bulleted list)
Apr 2024: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Captures Images of Galaxy M82's Glowing Core and Galactic Wind
Apr 2024: Two in one week! Congratulations Dr. Park and Dr. Hammerstein!!
Apr 2024: UMD Astronomer Helps NASA Launch Tiny Satellite to Study Powerful Cosmic Explosions
Apr 2024: NASA's 2023 Agency Honor Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Medal (DEIAM)
Apr 2024: Congratulations Dr. Karim!!
Mar 2024: A comet could photobomb the solar eclipse
Mar 2024: Take this Class!
Mar 2024: PDRS4All Project News
Mar 2024: JWST Cycle 3 Awards
Mar 2024: Grad Prospectives Welcomed!
Mar 2024: UMD Astrophysicist Benedikt Diemer Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Mar 2024: Argus/GBT Observations of Molecular Gas in the Inner Regions of IC 342
Mar 2024: Physical properties of asteroid Dimorphos as derived from the DART impact
Mar 2024: Rapid spin changes around a magnetar fast radio burst
Mar 2024: #GivingDayUMD
Feb 2024: UVEX selected!
Feb 2024: OH as a probe of the warm water cycle in planet-forming disks
Feb 2024: Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Awarded
Feb 2024: John Trasco 1942-2024
Feb 2024: SED Poster Party Winner
Feb 2024: Congratulations!
Jan 2024: Music of the nonspherical Galactic center
Jan 2024: Investigating the complex velocity structures within dense molecular cloud cores with GBT-Argus
Jan 2024: Surja Sharma 1948-2024
Jan 2024: Rumbling in the Cosmos
Dec 2023: Spotlight on Dr Vega
Dec 2023: Atmospheric Escape From Three Terrestrial Planets in the L 98-59 System
Dec 2023: Congratulations Dr. Marohnic!!
Dec 2023: 2nd Annual A'Hearn Lecture
Dec 2023: GBT/Argus Observations of Molecular Gas in the Inner Regions of IC 342
Nov 2023: UMD Astronomer Helps Take a Closer Look at 'Dinky' Asteroid
Nov 2023: Characterizing the gamut of habitable zone rocky exoplanets around M-dwarfs with next-generation observatories
Nov 2023: Lumen Circles: Teaching with OER & OER-enabled Pedagogy Fellowship
Nov 2023: Constraining the Thickness of TRAPPIST-1 b's Atmosphere from Its JWST Secondary Eclipse Observation at 15 µm
Nov 2023: Cheat sheet: where is Saturn?
Nov 2023: Prof. Christine Hartzell joins us as Affiliate Associate Professor
Nov 2023: NASA's Lucy Surprises Again, Observes 1st-ever Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid
Nov 2023: Italian Cultural Society of Washington DC's Young Scientist Award Winner
Nov 2023: Recently Appeared in the Sky
Nov 2023: Scientific Enhancements to the PhotoDissociation Region Toolbox
Nov 2023: Dinkinesh flyby successes and surprises
Nov 2023: Shining a Light on Mesa Verde National Park: NASA Outreach During the "Ring of Fire" Solar Eclipse
Nov 2023: SOFIA FEEDBACK Survey: The Pillars of Creation in [C II] and Molecular Lines
Oct 2023: Awards
Oct 2023: Scientists Discover Molten Layer Covering Martian Core
Oct 2023: NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Continues Approach to Asteroid Dinkinesh
Oct 2023: Search For Earth's Lost Moon
Oct 2023: The Evolution of Interesting Things Into Other Interesting Things
Oct 2023: Hypervelocity Impact Experiments Probe the Origin of Organics on the Dwarf Planet Ceres
Oct 2023: Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Nearby, Wide-separation L Dwarf Pair CWISE J061741.79+194512.8AB
Oct 2023: Quanzhi Ye receives Urey Prize at DPS
Oct 2023: NASA's OSIRIS-REx has returned bits of the asteroid Bennu to Earth
Sep 2023: Space Summit DC
Sep 2023: A newly discovered comet is passing the sun. Here's how to see it
Sep 2023: The Detection of Higher-Order Millimeter Hydrogen Recombination Lines in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Sep 2023: Welcome Marvin Q. Jones, Jr
Sep 2023: Presidential Appearance
Sep 2023: Transitions
Aug 2023: Former student news: Mike McDonald receives tenure at MIT; Krista Smith moves to Texas A&M
Aug 2023: Veilleux award HST time
Aug 2023: This Bizarre Star Could Become One of the Strongest Magnets in the Universe
Aug 2023: Astronomy major Christopher Ikpefua, who was awarded an SPS TEAM-UP Together Scholarship
Aug 2023: Quanzhi Ye wins this year's Urey Prize!
Aug 2023: GRAD-MAP Wrap-up
Aug 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Sergio Mundo!
Aug 2023: Our Galaxy Is Home to Trillions of Worlds Gone Rogue
Aug 2023: High-resolution SOFIA/EXES Spectroscopy of Water Absorption Lines in the Massive Young Binary W3 IRS 5
Aug 2023: JWST Cycle 2 Redux
Jul 2023: GRAD-MAP Summer Scholars Symposium this Friday
Jul 2023: The Return of Dr. Chris Reynolds!
Jul 2023: MOA collaboration press
Jul 2023: Bringing the Gift of Hope to Ukrainian Kids through Astronomy
Jul 2023: Congratulations to Drs. Vicente Villanueva Llanos and Ben Hord!
Jul 2023: Congratulations to Jeanette Kazmierczak and Sam Hull both win ASD Peer Awards!
Jul 2023: NSF extends ZTF operations by another year
Jul 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Carrie Holt!
Jul 2023: Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors Launch
Jul 2023: Asteroid names
Jul 2023: The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set
Jul 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Blake Hartley!
Jul 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Teal!
Jul 2023: Dr. Chris Reynolds Returns!
Jun 2023: A structured jet explains the extreme GRB 221009A
Jun 2023: Thejappa Golla 1951-2023
Jun 2023: Uncovering a population of gravitational lens galaxies with magnified standard candle SN Zwicky
Jun 2023: MANTIS Cube-sat selected
Jun 2023: More JWST Cycle 2 awards
Jun 2023: Welcome GRAD-MAP Summer Scholars!!
May 2023: Congratulations to Our Graduating Students!
May 2023: JWST Cycle 2 awards
May 2023: Spectroscopic identification of water emission from a main-belt comet
May 2023: GRAD-MAP student update
May 2023: Joe DeMartini awarded a Chateaubriand Fellowship
May 2023: Hartzell Selected for Martian Moons eXplorer (MMX) Science Team
May 2023: Science, Discovery and the Universe Scholars Program to Close After Successful 25-Year Run
May 2023: Alum Amy Steele to become the Director of Astronomy and Research at Yerkes Observatory
May 2023: Department Awards
May 2023: A reflective, metal-rich atmosphere for GJ 1214b from its JWST phase curve
May 2023: Mike Kelley to appear at Astronomy on Tap DC
May 2023: Nonlinear Power Response in Heterodyne Photonic Radiometers for Microwave Remote Sensing
May 2023: Thanks to Maryland Day Volunteers
May 2023: Congratulations to Alex Dittman, winner of the Pelczar Award!
May 2023: Derek Richardson wins course development award
May 2023: Department wins award from the Graduate School recognizing our graduate mentoring
May 2023: Congratulations Dr. Milena Crnogorčević!
Apr 2023: TU alumnae help bring space to life at James Webb Space Telescope
Apr 2023: Congratulations to Fred Garcia!
Apr 2023: Next year's graduate students!
Apr 2023: 17 Apr: Recently appeared
Apr 2023: Congratulations Dr. ChongChong He!
Apr 2023: The Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors Citizen Science Project
Apr 2023: PDS team selected for NASA Silver Group Achievement Award
Apr 2023: Arjun Savel wins CMNS 3-minute thesis competition
Apr 2023: Congratulations to Amanda Broadmeadow, NSF GRFP Fellow!
Mar 2023: The rocky lives of cosmic rubble piles
Mar 2023: Congratulations to our Chambliss Award winners Amanda Broadmeadow and Shreya Karthikeyan!
Mar 2023: Comet P/2021 HS (PANSTARRS) and the Challenge of Detecting Low-Activity Comets
Mar 2023: CRESST Scientist of the Month
Mar 2023: 06 Mar: Recently appeared
Mar 2023: Fred Garcia awarded Honors College Research Grant
Feb 2023: Congratulations to Ronald Gamble and Black in Astro!
Feb 2023: Congratulations Dr. Jialu Li!
Feb 2023: More on Sloan Award, PDR Toolbox, Green Comet
Feb 2023: Congratulations to Sloan Fellow in Physics Benedikt Diemer!
Feb 2023: Dr. Laura Vega is the CRESST II Scientist of the Month
Feb 2023: Jim Ulvestad appointed as NSF's Acting Director of Polar Programs
Feb 2023: Continuing the Green Comet media blitz
Feb 2023: Tidal Resurfacing Model for (99942) Apophis During the 2029 Close Approach with Earth
Feb 2023: Congratulations to Alice Allen, AAS Fellow!
Feb 2023: AstroTerps Lead Successful Comet Observing Session
Jan 2023: 30 Jan: Recently Appeared
Jan 2023: Andy Harris selected as a Fellow of the AAS
Jan 2023: Jegug Ih wins an Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award!
Jan 2023: Patents
Jan 2023: NASA ExoExplorers
Jan 2023: Mike says go see the comet
Jan 2023: 23 Jan: Recently Appeared
Jan 2023: News from AAS
Jan 2023: GRAD-MAP Winter Workshop was a big success!
Jan 2023: Alex Dittmann wins an Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award!
Jan 2023: DART at AGU
Jan 2023: Atmospheres, Climate, and Potential Habitability of Rocky Exoplanets
Jan 2023: Exoplanet Atmosphere Circulation
Dec 2022: Congratulations to TVS co-Chair Igor Andreoni
Dec 2022: End of year appearances
Dec 2022: Brin MRC Summer School
Dec 2022: 12 Dec: Recently Appeared
Dec 2022: Congratulations to Ron Gamble and Veselin Kostov for winning NASA ASD Peer Awards
Dec 2022: Congratulations Dr. Elizabeth Tarantino!
Dec 2022: Igor Andreoni: luminous jet, stellar disruption, massive black hole
Dec 2022: Congratulations to Carrie (Rye) Volpert for winning a NASA Pathways Fellowship
Nov 2022: Science in a Shell features Veilleux press release
Nov 2022: Announcing the Katharine B. Gebbie Lectureship in Astronomy
Nov 2022: 21 Nov: Recently Appeared
Nov 2022: Congratulations to Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar Fred Garcia!
Nov 2022: NASA calendar features former Prof Mike A'Hearn
Nov 2022: A Different Way to 'Play' Video Games
Nov 2022: Dean's Voices of Inclusive Excellence Lecture
Oct 2022: Former Undergrad Alyssa Mills (2018) Selected as a John Mather Nobel Scholar
Oct 2022: Annual Assembly Summary
Oct 2022: Photodissociation and X-Ray Dominated Regions
Oct 2022: The PhotoDissociation Region Toolbox
Oct 2022: James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Massive Galaxy Cluster Surrounding a Powerful Red Quasar
Oct 2022: Lucy in the sky (without diamonds)
Oct 2022: DART impact results!
Oct 2022: International Observe the Moon Night
Oct 2022: Congratulations to Milena Crnogorčević on winning the Wilson Prize!
Oct 2022: DART Followup
Sep 2022: PRIME telescope description and time-lapse video build
Sep 2022: Meisner Lecture in Gravitational Physics, and more
Sep 2022: International Moon Night, Jupiter at opposition
Sep 2022: Craters on Mars
Sep 2022: DART Impact Imminent
Sep 2022: The Influence of Disk Composition on the Evolution of Stars in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei
Sep 2022: High-resolution M-band Spectroscopy of CO toward the Massive Young Stellar Binary W3 IRS 5
Sep 2022: Congratulations Dr. Harrison Agrusa
Sep 2022: Derek Richardson at Science on Tap on Sept. 20
Aug 2022: Gennady Milikh 1946 - 2022
Aug 2022: Inferring interiors and structural history of top-shaped asteroids from external properties of asteroid (101955) Bennu
Aug 2022: NASA's Webb Telescope Detects First Evidence of Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere
Aug 2022: Wildfire Experts Provide Guidance for New Research Directions
Aug 2022: Congratulations to Claire Guépin!
Aug 2022: Recently appeared
Aug 2022: GRAD-MAP Research Fair
Aug 2022: 7732 Ralphpass in orbit
Aug 2022: ApJ Special Issue; BASS DR2
Aug 2022: Congratulations Dr. Tomas Ahumada!
Jul 2022: Congratulations to UMD scientists on cracking mystery of castaway gamma-ray bursts
Jul 2022: Recently Appeared: JWST, LOOK, COMAP, DART, Bennu, Physics
Jul 2022: Arjun Savel wins predoc position at CCA
Jul 2022: Congratulations Dr. Weizhe Liu!
Jul 2022: UMD Selected as Host Institution for 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Program
Jul 2022: Terps' Work Helped Create First Images From Webb Space Telescope
Jul 2022: High-Resolution M-band Spectroscopy of CO towards the Massive Young Stellar Binary W3 IRS5
Jul 2022: Carrie Holt wins a FINESST award
Jul 2022: Congratulations Dr. Charlotte Ward!
Jun 2022: Andrew Harris Reappointed as Chair of UMD's Department of Astronomy for Five-year Term
Jun 2022: Behold the Weird Physics of Double-Impact Asteroids
Jun 2022: Jessica Sunshine and Sarah Valencia of Astronomy part of team selected by NASA for a moon exploration mission
Jun 2022: Early Career Scientist Spotlight: Milena Crnogorčević
Jun 2022: Ghostly Stellar Haloes and their Relationship to Ultra-faint Dwarfs
Jun 2022: Congratulations Prof. Bialy!
Jun 2022: Welcome GRAD-MAP Summer Scholars!
Jun 2022: Congratulations Dr. Guangwei Fu
May 2022: Departmental Prize Winners
May 2022: Fun facts, lots of astronomers
May 2022: Thesis award to Becca
May 2022: Grad student Milena Crnogorčević's proposal selected in Fermi GI Cycle 15 for Phase 2
May 2022: Congratulations to our graduates!
May 2022: Black Hole sounds
May 2022: A dynamics-based density profile for dark haloes -- II. Fitting function
May 2022: News from Alumni and Friends
May 2022: Maryland Day a Great Success
Apr 2022: Isiah Holt: Supernova Ph.D. Student Selected for NASA Pathways
Apr 2022: Fitting Tribute to a Favorite Professor
Apr 2022: ToO observations of gravitational waves with VRO
Apr 2022: Alan Stern to speak at Inaugural A'Hearn Lecture
Apr 2022: Grad student Guangwei Fu led a paper in ApJ (Letters)
Apr 2022: Congratulations to Antoine Washington, Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship recipient
Apr 2022: Congratulations to Katya Leidig, One of 14 CMNS awardees of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Mar 2022: Congratulations Dr. Robyn Smith!
Mar 2022: Recent Awards: Congratulations to Cole Miller, Alexander Dittmann, Milena Crnogorčević, Israel Biniam!
Mar 2022: Gravitational Waves in Physics and Astrophysics: An Artisan's Guide
Mar 2022: Info Challenge winners: debugging the heavens!
Feb 2022: High Energy Astrophysics Division Prizes awarded to Keith Arnaud and Brad Cenko
Feb 2022: Astronomers Trace Galaxy Flows Across 700 Million Light-Years
Jan 2022: Richard Mushotzky named as the 2022 Henry Norris Russell Lecturer
Jan 2022: NASA Pathways Fellowship awarded to Isiah Holt
Jan 2022: Recent publications from Alex Dittmann and Andrew Harris
Jan 2022: GRAD-MAP Winter Workshop 2022 a great success!
Jan 2022: CTC Fellow Shmuel Bialy with several interesting articles
Jan 2022: Milena Crnogorčević receives Graduate School's Outstanding Research Assistant Award
Jan 2022: Alex Dittmann receives Graduate School's Outstanding Research Assistant Award
Jan 2022: ApJS special issue on Rubin Observatory has two articles from Gehrels Fellow Igor Andreoni
Dec 2021: EPOXI still producing papers after 12 years
Dec 2021: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics out with articles from two Astronomy Professors
Dec 2021: Schuster, Bessho, Wang, and Ng article selected Editor's Pick for Physics of Plasma special issue
Dec 2021: Benedikt Diemer, "A dynamics-based density profile for dark haloes. I. Algorithm and basic results"
Dec 2021: Undergrad Delina Levine has two papers on GRB afterglows published
Dec 2021: Surja Sharma's presentation recorded to YouTube
Nov 2021: DART launch
Nov 2021: "Early Activity in Comet C/2014 UN271 Bernardinelli-Bernstein as Observed by TESS"
Nov 2021: Webb Primed to Lift the Haze Surrounding Sub-Neptunes
Nov 2021: Quirks & Quarks!
Nov 2021: NASA renews cooperative agreement / $32.5M for Small Bodies Node
Nov 2021: Dr. Bolatto makes Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list
Nov 2021: Decadal Survey's support of the ngVLA
Nov 2021: 2021 TA Awards
Nov 2021: Annual Assembly
Oct 2021: Preview of Solar System's Demise
Oct 2021: Congratulations to Weizhe Liu on winning the Wilson Prize!
Oct 2021: Congratulations Dr. Laura Lenkić!
Oct 2021: Jessica Sunshine in the news and at the Lucy mission launch
Oct 2021: Recent Publication from Raugh
Oct 2021: Agrusa also in...
Sep 2021: JSI extended
Sep 2021: New IPDA Chair: Gerbs Bauer
Sep 2021: Agrusa in MIT Tech Review
Sep 2021: BANG seminar series kicks off on Thursday
Sep 2021: Dr. Henning (ASTR PhD 1990) tapped as next Assistant Director for New Mexico Operations
Aug 2021: Recent Publications from Grell and Ye et al.
Aug 2021: Into the Fall semester!
Aug 2021: Chongchong He paper in ApJ
Aug 2021: Congratulations to the Small Bodies Node on their successful review
Aug 2021: Alum News: Sheth heads to WH; Ballouz et al article in MNRAS
Aug 2021: Congratulations to Drs. Frederick, Sheppard, Cunningham, and Levy!
Jul 2021: Discovery and Confirmation of the Shortest Gamma-ray Burst from a Collapsar
Jul 2021: Overture to Exoplanets
Jul 2021: Congratulations to the 45 Astronomy students who made the Spring 2021 Dean's list!
Jul 2021: Congratulations to the three 2021 Hollings Scholars from CMNS
Jul 2021: Sylvain Veilleux in orbit
Jul 2021: Incoming grad student Ell Bogat chosen as CRESST scientist of the month
Jun 2021: First Clear View of a Boiling Cauldron Where Stars are Born
Jun 2021: Unusual new comet discovered
Jun 2021: Former grad student Hannah Krug wins a Sweet STEM Instructorship at Holton Arms
Jun 2021: Chongchong He wins a FINESST award
Jun 2021: Cecilia Chirenti quoted in ScienceNews article about black holes
Jun 2021: The department rocks!
Jun 2021: Joe DeMartini wins a NASA FINESST award
Jun 2021: Gerbs Bauer and Astrophysics Large Mission Study Team receive NASA Group Achievement Award
Jun 2021: Jonathan Williams' triple galaxy mergers featured at 238th AAS
Jun 2021: Richard Mushotzky named NASA-affiliated fellow
Jun 2021: Visiting Principal Research Scientist John Carr featured in AAS Nova
May 2021: Squishy Neutron Star Setback Dampens Hopes of Exotic Matter
May 2021: Departmental Award Winner
May 2021: More congratulations to Surja
May 2021: A new PHaSER for UMD space science
May 2021: NASA Renews Cooperative Agreement / $178M for CRESST II through 2027
May 2021: Welcome to Assistant Professor Tad Komacek
May 2021: Cole's fame increases...
Apr 2021: Rebecca Levy awarded NSF's Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship
Apr 2021: NICER and NICER, Cole Miller sizes up a neutron star
Apr 2021: Congratulations to L'SPACE Academy participants Hena Imran and Chris Egan!
Apr 2021: JWST Cycle 1 GO programs announced
Apr 2021: Ludmilla Kolokolova on Borisov
Apr 2021: Congratulations to Chongchong He, who has been awarded an Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
Apr 2021: Congratulations to Siobhan Light, who has been selected to receive a NOAA Hollings Scholarship!
Mar 2021: Congratulations to Sam Crossely for winning a 2021 Career Development Award from the LPI!
Feb 2021: A'Hearn lectures to begin in Fall
Feb 2021: SOFIA proposal awards
Feb 2021: Congratulations to Laura Blecha on her Cottrell Scholar Award!
Feb 2021: Marc Neveu talks about basic molecular structures
Feb 2021: Quanzhi Ye quoted in CNET article about China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission
Feb 2021: Tech journalist and double major (B.S. '02 physics; B.S. '02, astronomy) Alan Henry featured in Physics newsletter
Feb 2021: Congratulations to Rebecca Levy, NSF postdoctoral fellow!
Feb 2021: Pradip Gatkine wins a Hubble Fellowship
Feb 2021: Richard Mushotzky elected as an AAS Fellow
Jan 2021: Congratulations to the many Astronomy students who made the CMNS Dean's List for Fall 2021!
Jan 2021: GRAD-MAP 2021 Winter Workshop wraps up
Jan 2021: Results from Sloan-funded workshop
Jan 2021: Marohnic et al. make cover of special issue of Icarus
Jan 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Dana Louie, the Department's newest PhD!
Jan 2021: Welcome to the GRAD-MAP Winter Workshop participants!
Dec 2020: Jason Schuster and Naoki Bessho awarded grant for MMS research
Dec 2020: ADAP proposals selected
Dec 2020: Andy Harris recalls time spent with his PhD advisor Reinhard Genzel for the Berkeley News
Nov 2020: Quanzhi Ye quoted in Forbes article about youngest comet discoverer
Nov 2020: Cole Miller and Isiah Holt receive Faculty-Student Research Award
Nov 2020: Brad Cenko and team receive NASA Agency Honor Award
Nov 2020: Claire Guepin receives prize from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris
Oct 2020: Jessica Sunshine quoted in...
Oct 2020: University of Maryland Astronomers Find X-rays Lingering Years After Landmark Neutron Star Collision
Oct 2020: Claire Guepin to receive award from the French Physical Society
Oct 2020: Congratulations to our department members and friends who have received NASA medals!
Sep 2020: Graduate Student Ben Hord selected for funding through FINESST
Sep 2020: Is There a Black Hole In Our Backyard?
Sep 2020: Dr. Kyle Murphy Part of Team Awarded $1.25 million for space weather research study
Jul 2020: Drs. Brad Cenko and Michael Loewenstein along with grad student Zeeve Rogoszinski have been featured in the media talking about their projects
Jul 2020: Congratulations to the 53 Astronomy students who made the CMNS Dean's List for Spring 2020!
Jun 2020: Graduate Student Julian Marohnic selected for funding through FINESST
Jun 2020: Derek Richardson awarded Kirwan Research and Scholarship Prize
May 2020: Congratulations to the Department's newest PhD Graduate, Dr. Myra Stone!
May 2020: Astronomy Graduate Student Receives CMNS Board of Visitors' Outstanding Graduate Student Award for 2020
Apr 2020: Piece Separates From Comet Borisov
Apr 2020: NSF Graduate Fellowship Awarded to Astronomy student Caleb Harada
Mar 2020: Researchers Seek the Axion Particle Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Feb 2020: Generous Gift Seeds the Mike A'Hearn Endowed Lectureship in Planetary Astronomy
Feb 2020: First AAS Fellows Announced
Jan 2020: First Asteroid Found Inside Orbit of Venus
Jan 2020: Tidal Disruption Events: When a Star Comes too Close to a Black Hole
Jan 2020: Astronomers Spot Distant Galaxy Group Driving Ancient Cosmic Makeover
Dec 2019: Researchers Map Hotspots of Pulsar Using Supercomputer Deepthought2
Dec 2019: Astronomers Propose a New Technique for Identifying Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets
Dec 2019: UMD Astronomers Catch a Natural Comet Outburst in Unprecedented Detail
Dec 2019: First interstellar comet may soon break apart as it nears the Sun
Oct 2019: NASA's Webb to Unlock the Mysteries of Comets and the Early Solar System
Aug 2019: UMD-led Study Captures Six Galaxies Undergoing Sudden, Dramatic Transitions
Aug 2019: Research Gives New Insight into How Much Atmosphere Mars Lost
Aug 2019: Astronomers Struck Gold in Distant Stellar Collision
Aug 2019: UMD Astronomer Suvi Gezari Named Kavli Foundation Plenary Lecturer
Aug 2019: Distant "Heavy Metal" Gas Planet is Shaped Like a Football
Aug 2019: 'TERMINATORS' ON THE SUN TRIGGER PLASMA TSUNAMIS
Jul 2019: The natural history of 'Oumuamua
Jul 2019: Derek Richardson Named 2019 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Mar 2019: The Past, Present and Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Mar 2019: How Ultima Thule Is Like a Sticky, Pull-Apart Pastry
Feb 2019: UMD astronomers contribute to a wealth of discoveries facilitated by ZTF
Jan 2019: Astronomers Map 'Light Echoes' of Newly Discovered Black Hole
Nov 2018: Astronomers Find Pairs of Black Holes at the Centers of Merging Galaxies
Oct 2018: 'Pulsar in a Box' Reveals Surprising Picture of a Neutron Star's Surroundings
Oct 2018: NASA's Fermi Mission Energizes the Sky with Gamma-ray Constellations
Oct 2018: Kin of Gravitational Wave Source Discovered
Aug 2018: Eliza Kempton Co-authors NASA Report Calling for Mission to Study Exoplanets
Aug 2018: First interplanetary CubeSat mission, MarCO, is only the beginning
Aug 2018: Star-Swallowing Black Holes Reveal Secrets in Exotic Light Shows
Aug 2018: UMD Grad Students Receive 2018 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships
Jul 2018: CAESAR Launches New Website
Jun 2018: UMD-led Study Shows How Earth Slows the Solar Wind to a Gentle Breeze
May 2018: UMD Astronomers Install All-sky Cameras on Campus and in Haiti
May 2018: College's Alumni Network Announces 2018 Summer Undergraduate Award Winners
May 2018: Astronomy Undergrads Recognized in Physics UG Research Showcase
May 2018: University Medal Awarded to Physics and Astronomy Senior Christopher Bambic
May 2018: Rubber-Ducky Comets May Have Taken a Violent Beating
May 2018: Professor Drake Deming Discusses Breakthrough in Exoplanetary Research
May 2018: Associate Research Scientist Li-Jen Chen wins Dean's Award
Apr 2018: Maryland Day Astronomy Station a Big Success!
Apr 2018: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Awarded to Nine CMNS Students
Mar 2018: Charles Goodrich, former Senior Research Scientist, passes away
Mar 2018: SCIENCE ON TAP: Hungry Black Holes
Feb 2018: Two UMD Science Majors Win Prestigious Churchill Scholarships
Feb 2018: University of Maryland to Have Key Role in Possible NASA Comet Mission
Feb 2018: Dr. Eleonora Troja Awarded the Italian Bilateral Scientific Award by the MAECI
Jan 2018: Three types of extreme-energy space particles may have unified origin
Jan 2018: UMD Astronomers Measure most Rapid Slowing of Comet's Rotation ever Witnessed
Jan 2018: Zwicky Transient Facility Sees "First Light"
Jan 2018: John Mulchaey and Yixian Zheng Named Interim Carnegie Institution Co-Presidents
Dec 2017: NSF announces James Ulvestad as Chief Officer for Research Facilities
Dec 2017: The Geminids light up the sky and provide big research opportunities
Dec 2017: Astronomers produce most detailed map ever of galaxy orbits in supercluster
Dec 2017: WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water
Dec 2017: An orbital dance may help preserve oceans on icy worlds
Nov 2017: Hitomi mission glimpses cosmic 'recipe' for the nearby universe
Nov 2017: Projects developed by UMD research scientists selected for JWST DD-ERS
Oct 2017: UMD Scientists Win Research of the Aspen Institute Italia Award 2017
Oct 2017: Neutron Star Merger Directly Observed for First Time by UMD Research Scientists
Oct 2017: Research Scientist, A. Surjalal Sharma, elected Fellow of the APS
Oct 2017: Astro 315 (SP 2017) student papers featured in Minor Planet Bulletin
Oct 2017: Astro student, Junellie Quiles, helps lead relief efforts on campus for Puerto Rico
Sep 2017: Active galactic nuclei models upended by new observations
Sep 2017: Congratulations to all the faculty members who were recently promoted!
Sep 2017: Research scientist Haihong Che wins first Renè Pellat Memorial Prize
Sep 2017: Ultrahot exoplanet has signatures of a stratosphere
Sep 2017: JSI Conference on Cosmic Accelerators held on November 6-9, 2017
Aug 2017: Dr. Eleonora Troja awarded observing time on Chandra and Hubble
Aug 2017: Solar eclipse event at University of Maryland a huge success!
Aug 2017: Graduate student, Amy Steele, participates in solar eclipse expedition in Salem
Aug 2017: UMD Research Scientists granted Chandra and Hubble telescope time
Jul 2017: Gamma-ray Burst Captured in Unprecedented Detail
Jun 2017: Dr. Andrew Harris serves as new chair of the astronomy department
Jun 2017: Dr. Hayes-Gehrke featured in The Chronicle on active-learning classrooms
Jun 2017: Chris Bambic selected as a 2017-2018 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar
Jun 2017: Thomas Rimlinger receives 2017 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
Jun 2017: Alumna Lisa Mazzuca (Ph.D. '06) a finalist for prestigious award
May 2017: Dr. Eleonora Troja receives Young Scientist Award from the ICS
May 2017: Michael A'Hearn, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, passes away
Apr 2017: Asteroid named after Dr. Dennis Bodewits
Apr 2017: NASA video showcases 3 comets on close-approaches to Earth
Apr 2017: Department volunteers entertain & enlighten public at Maryland Day
Apr 2017: Hayes-Gehrke, Smith, and Gezari honored by CMNS BOV awards
Apr 2017: NASA selects proposed AXIS space mission concept
Apr 2017: Amy Steele wins Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship
Apr 2017: Dana Louie wins EAPSI Fellowship
Mar 2017: Valeria Cottini's project accepted to PSDS3 program
Mar 2017: Small Bodies Group studies comet through Las Cumbres collaboration
Mar 2017: Chris Bambic wins Goldwater Scholarship
Mar 2017: UMD wins CRESST II Cooperative Agreement from NASA
Mar 2017: Emily Garhart wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Mar 2017: Arnab Dhabal wins Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
Mar 2017: ESPRESSO team to study risks for space missions to solar system bodies
Mar 2017: A'Hearn and Bodewits co-author Science paper on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Mar 2017: Mar. 20-24 ELS-XVI conference on dust scattering
Mar 2017: Shreya Anand & Chris Bambic win Honors College Research Grants
Mar 2017: Mahmuda Afrin Badhan wins grant to 2017 AbSciCon
Mar 2017: Tombesi co-authors Nature Astronomy paper on black hole winds
Mar 2017: Reynolds, King, Kara, & Lohfink's black hole paper in Nature
Feb 2017: Prof. Cole Miller comments on Space.com discussing black hole discovery
Feb 2017: College Park Professor Neil Gehrels passes away
Feb 2017: Asst. Prof. Suvi Gezari's paper highlighted on AAS Nova
Jan 2017: Prof. A'Hearn quoted in 'Science' article about Lucy & Psyche missions
Dec 2016: GRAD-MAP & diversity successes as told by Ashlee Wilkins
Dec 2016: Dr. Hamilton's research on Pluto's heart makes #1 news of 2016
Nov 2016: Rosetta gives new insights into comet 67P's coma
Nov 2016: Emily Garhart receives Thomas R. McGetchin Memorial Scholarship Award
Nov 2016: Prof. Hamilton's new model explains the moon's weird orbit
Oct 2016: Krista Smith featured in NASA press release on 'pumpkin stars'
Oct 2016: Prof. Suvi Gezari earns CMNS Board of Visitors Junior Faculty Award
Oct 2016: Earth's magnetospheric bow shock exhibits ripples
Oct 2016: Paper on comet C/2015 D1's demise highlighted by AAS Journals
Sep 2016: A'Hearn & Bodewits contribute to Rosetta study of comet outbursts
Sep 2016: Livengood & A'Hearn featured in "Between the Columns"
Sep 2016: Pradip Gatkine wins "best student presentation" at SPIE conference
Sep 2016: Ludmilla Kolokolova publishes Rosetta commentary in Nature
Aug 2016: JSI Conference to be held November 9-11th
Aug 2016: Alan Peel selected for the 2016 Undergraduate Studies Faculty Fellows
Aug 2016: Congratulations to professional-track faculty who received promotions
Jul 2016: Eleanora Troja and team featured in Chandra press release
Jun 2016: Erin Kara and Chris Reynolds paper published in Nature
Jun 2016: Marc Pound has won the campus Professional Track Faculty Prize
Jun 2016: Gabrielle Betancourt-Martinez earns 1st place in 3MT competition
Jun 2016: Xi Shao receives NOAA's STAR award
Jun 2016: Drew Hogg, Dana Louie & Zeeve Rogoszinski awarded NESSF
May 2016: Michael Kelley & Matthew Knight's paper picked up by "New Scientist"
May 2016: Li-Jen Chen & Shan Wang MMS study featured in Science
May 2016: Three of our researchers win NASA Agency Honor Awards
May 2016: Mahmuda Afrin receives Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant
May 2016: Elizabeth Warner & Peter Teuben to host high-level visitor from Haiti
May 2016: Department volunteers entertain & enlighten public at Maryland Day
May 2016: Alberto Bolatto promoted from Associate Professor to Professor
May 2016: Alice Olmstead recognized at 35th Annual University Awards Program
May 2016: Krista Smith wins Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study
May 2016: Pradip Gatkine wins Kulkarni Foundation Summer Research Fellowship
May 2016: Ashlee Wilkins wins All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship
May 2016: Vicky Toy wins Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
May 2016: Mahmuda Afrin & Mark Avara win university physics & astronomy competition
Apr 2016: Matthew Knight & Mike Kelly DCT research published in ApJL
Apr 2016: Vicky Toy wins Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
Apr 2016: Derek Richardson and Mona Susanto win CMNS awards
Apr 2016: Undergrad Mark Moretto wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Mar 2016: Ed Shaya and Rob Olling are first to catch a supernova breakout in the act
Mar 2016: Alum Dheeraj Pasham (Ph.D. '14) wins Einstein Fellowship
Feb 2016: Cole Miller summarizes LIGO discovery in Nature News & Views
Feb 2016: Amy Steele interviewed for Astronomy in Color blog
Feb 2016: Mark Wolfire earns Distinguished Research Scientist Award
Feb 2016: Knight, Kelley, & Protopapa observe an asteroid with an identity crisis
Feb 2016: Members of JSI & Astro Dept involved in LIGO discovery
Feb 2016: Dr. Tracy Huard co-authors paper highlighted on AAS Nova
Feb 2016: Alice Allen interviewed for Nature article
Feb 2016: Dr. Teuben, E. Warner, A. Wilkins, & GRAD-MAP support HASC
Feb 2016: E. Ferrara, J. Bonnell, B. Hesman, & R. Achterberg earn GSFC Awards
Jan 2016: Amy Steele earns Chambliss Honorable Mention Certificate
Jan 2016: Dr. Rick Perley receives AAS George Van Biesbroeck Prize
Dec 2015: Alum Charles Bennett named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Dec 2015: Michael Kelley discusses JWST research in Discovery News
Nov 2015: JSI mini-symposium "JSI Scientists Jamboree" on November 20
Nov 2015: Bodewits & A'Hearn use OSIRIS to map emissions from comet 67P
Nov 2015: Maggie McAdam receives NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
Oct 2015: Segura, Achterberg, & Hesman receive Goddard Honor Award
Oct 2015: Junellie Gonzalez Quiles featured in CMNS news release
Oct 2015: Miller, Cenko, Gezari and Mushotzky featured in Nature
Oct 2015: Protopapa and Hamilton's Pluto studies featured in Science
Oct 2015: Cenko, Tombesi, and Yamaguchi receive RHG Honor Awards
Oct 2015: Special UMD Observatory observing-only session on 10/19
Oct 2015: Michael A'Hearn receives NASA Award for Planetary Data
Oct 2015: Francesco Tombesi receives Italian National Prize "Gentile da Fabriano"
Oct 2015: Silvia Protopapa quoted in New Horizons press release
Oct 2015: Alum Alex Lockwood (B.S. '07) stars in "The PHD Movie 2"
Sep 2015: Astro faculty & GRAD-MAP part of new NSF grant to study cosmic flashes
Sep 2015: Pasham, Cenko, Mushotzky & Tombesi featured in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Sep 2015: ASTR 315: Minor Planet Bulletin articles have been published
Sep 2015: Dr. Sylvain Guiriec wins 2015 Young Scientist Prize
Sep 2015: Tyler & Henning discuss Io's magma ocean tides in the Astrophysical Journal
Sep 2015: Department black hole research featured in CMNS' Odyssey article
Sep 2015: Former Professor Bill Erickson passes away
Aug 2015: JSI Workshop on supermassive black holes, Oct. 12-14
Jul 2015: Assistant research scientist Jerry Bonnell receives Klumpke-Roberts Award
Jun 2015: Doug Hamilton & team discuss Pluto's moons in Nature
May 2015: Grad student Maggie McAdam wins NASA Earth&Space Science Fellowship
May 2015: Farnham, Kelley, and Bodewits receive NASA Group Achievement Award
May 2015: Olling, Mushotzky, and Shaya study baby supernovae in Nature article
May 2015: Ron Ballouz wins Chateaubriand Fellowship
May 2015: Grad student Ashlee Wilkins elected as VP for Academic Affairs
May 2015: Grad student Krista Smith earns Graduate All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship
Apr 2015: Alum John Mulchaey appointed Director of the Carnegie Observatories
Apr 2015: Katie Jameson wins Graduate Student Distinguished Service Award
Apr 2015: Join us for Maryland Day Saturday, April 25
Apr 2015: Grad student Liu, Prof. Gezari, & Dr. Heinis featured in the Diamondback
Apr 2015: Alum Mike McDonald accepts tenure-track faculty position at MIT
Apr 2015: Grad students Shimizu, Rizzo, and Dhabal earn impressive fellowships
Apr 2015: Dr. Yamaguchi and team track supernova remnant back in time
Mar 2015: JSI mini-symposium on "Energetic Particles" on Apr. 3
Mar 2015: Tombesi, Melendez, Veilleux and Reynolds featured in Nature cover story
Mar 2015: Prof. J. Drake's lab featured in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Mar 2015: Crowdfunding to help build the MD All-Sky Camera Network
Mar 2015: Prof Suvi Gezari wins prestigious 5-year CAREER Award
Feb 2015: UMD Observatory featured in Diamondback article
Feb 2015: UMD Observatory celebrates 50 years of open houses
Jan 2015: Elizabeth Warner and Clayton Smith observe asteroid occultation
Jan 2015: Maggie McAdam and Prof. Sunshine's article inspires CosmoSparks report
Jan 2015: A'Hearn, Bodewits and Gudipati featured in special issue of Science
Dec 2014: Grad students Olmstead and Ballouz receive Goldhaber grants
Dec 2014: Prof Veilleux and grad student Toy discover unusual galaxy
Nov 2014: University of Maryland observatory celebrates 50 years
Nov 2014: Mushotzky, Koss, Blecha, and Veilleux discuss distant light source
Nov 2014: Drs. A'Hearn & Bodewits on OSIRIS team which captures Philae landing
Nov 2014: Rosetta comet landing's watch party on Nov. 12 a big success
Nov 2014: Prof. Miller & grad student Ballouz discuss supercomputer, Deepthought2
Nov 2014: Yu, Richardson, & Schwartz predict asteroid avalanches in Earth flyby
Oct 2014: UMD ranks among world's best in Space Science in new studies
Oct 2014: Undergrad Allison Bostrom named a 2014-15 Merrill Presidential Scholar
Oct 2014: Alum Kartik Sheth (Ph.D. '01) featured in NASA press release
Oct 2014: Prof Cole Miller selected as one of the "Nifty Fifty" speakers
Oct 2014: Alumna Fabienne Bastien (B.S. '05) featured in "NSF Discoveries"
Sep 2014: Prof D. Deming and grad students Fraine & Wilkins published in Nature
Sep 2014: Maggie McAdam accepted to TLTC Graduate Teaching Fellows Program
Sep 2014: Rosetta's UV spectrograph, Alice, finds surprises on comet C-G
Sep 2014: Undergrad Allison Bostrom publishes in Astrophysical Journal
Sep 2014: JSI workshop on "Multimessenger Astronomy" Nov. 10-12
Aug 2014: Grad student Pasham and Prof. Mushotzky find new class of black holes
Aug 2014: Dr. Tombesi earns 2014 Astrophysics Science Division Peer Award
Aug 2014: Professors Michael A'Hearn and Jessica Sunshine quoted in Science
Jul 2014: New asteroids are named after UMD researchers
Jul 2014: Professor Drake Deming discovers surprisingly dry exoplanets
Jun 2014: Alumna Amy Reines receives NASA Hubble Fellowship
Jun 2014: Prof. D. Papadopoulos writes Washington Post opinion piece on HAARP
Jun 2014: Small Bodies Group team observes comet Siding Spring
Jun 2014: Alum Brent Tully wins 2014 Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize
Jun 2014: Grad student Maggie McAdam wins first place at CMS Meeting
May 2014: Prof. Dennis Papadopoulos quoted in Nature News on HAARP closing
May 2014: Alumna Ashley King (B.S. '09) receives NASA Einstein Fellowship
May 2014: Gabrielle Betancourt and Krista Smith win NASA NESSF
May 2014: Alex Fitts and Myra Stone receive Grad Student Teaching Awards
May 2014: Dr. Melissa Hayes-Gehrke wins Undergraduate Teaching Award
May 2014: Prof. Mike Boylan-Kolchin discusses new cosmic simulation in Nature
May 2014: Undergrads Blankenship, Mannoia, and Rimlinger receive dept. Honors
May 2014: Prof. Suvi Gezari's article featured in May issue of Physics Today
May 2014: Undergrad Allison Bostrom wins Dorfman Prize
Apr 2014: Department volunteers entertain and enlighten public at Maryland Day
Apr 2014: Department members move to new Physical Sciences Complex
Apr 2014: Rodrigo Herrera Camus & Ronald Ballouz win GRID competition
Apr 2014: Vicki Toy wins International Conference Student Support Award
Apr 2014: Astronomy Workshop featured in article on 10 weirdest calculations
Apr 2014: Anne Lohfink wins CMNS BOV Outstanding Grad Student Award
Apr 2014: Dr. Gerald Share to appear on episode of Cosmic Front
Apr 2014: Alum Matt Bobrowski (Ph.D. '85) is a 2014 "Nifty Fifty" speaker
Apr 2014: Grad student Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez wins NSTRF Fellowship
Apr 2014: Grad student Maggie McAdam wins travel awards for 2014 CMS meeting
Apr 2014: Alumnus Prof. Charles Bennett wins CMNS Distinguished Alumni Award
Apr 2014: Prof. Sylvain Veilleux selected as a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow
Mar 2014: ASTR 315 students published in The Minor Planet Bulletin
Feb 2014: Matthew Knight (Ph.D. '08) quoted in Nature article on comet ISON
Jan 2014: Kepler telescope unlocks new info about supernovas
Jan 2014: Prof. Reynolds receives a pair of impressive honors
Jan 2014: Galaxy NGC253 featured in Nature Magazine's "Images of the Year"
Jan 2014: Ludmilla Kolokolova gives interview on Voice of Russia
Dec 2013: ASTR 315 students discover binary asteroid system
Dec 2013: Discovery of Segue 2 listed among top 100 stories of 2013
Dec 2013: Prof. Drake Deming & team find more atmospheric water on exoplanets
Dec 2013: Alice Olmstead's poster on Astrobites featured in Mercury magazine
Dec 2013: Dr. Dale Fixsen awarded Robert H. Goddard Honor Award
Nov 2013: Alum Matthew Knight (Ph.D. '08) featured in NASA Science News article
Nov 2013: Dr. Tombesi receives ISSNAF Award Special Mention
Nov 2013: "JSI Scientist Jamboree" mini-symposium on Nov. 15
Nov 2013: Prof. Drake Deming discusses Earth-like planet in "Nature"
Nov 2013: Drs. Shaya & Tully explain formation of Local Group galaxy planes
Oct 2013: Dr. Surja Sharma selected to deliver Ramanathan Memorial Lecture
Oct 2013: Drs. Knight, Walsh, and Bodewits quoted in Nature article on comet ISON
Oct 2013: Alumna Fabienne Bastien (B.S. '05) improves accuracy of star properties
Sep 2013: Former ASTR 100 student Elaine Hunt starts astronomy blog
Sep 2013: Deep Impact's hugely successful mission comes to an end after 8 years
Sep 2013: Grad student Kari Helgason interviewed for Icelandic National TV show
Sep 2013: Grad student Ron Ballouz wins two travel grants for OSIRIS-REx meeting
Sep 2013: JSI workshop on "Putting Accretion Theory to the Test" Nov. 4-6
Sep 2013: Alum Brett Morris' (B.S. '12) exoplanet photometry code made public
Aug 2013: Intern Mark Moretto wins National Young Astronomer Award
Jul 2013: Prof. Lee Mundy thanked for his service as CARMA director
Jul 2013: Prof. Alberto Bolatto finds heavy gas outflows from starbursting galaxy
Jul 2013: Prof. Sylvain Veilleux and team land $1 million Keck Foundation award
Jul 2013: Alum Don Yeomans (Ph.D. '70) receives 2013 Carl Sagan Medal
Jul 2013: Assistant Professor Mike Boylan-Kolchin joins Department of Astronomy
Jul 2013: Alum Paul Butler (Ph.D. '93) on team discovering 3 super-Earths
Jun 2013: Grad students organize D.C.-area summer astronomy meeting
Jun 2013: Prof. Chris Reynolds receives Taiwanese astronomy award
May 2013: Res. Prof. Neil Miller helps identify extragalactic radio sources
May 2013: Prof. Andy Harris' Zpectrometer benefits galaxy evolution research
May 2013: JSI mini-symposium on May 31 on time domain astronomy
May 2013: Elizabeth Warner interviewed by WUSA on Australian solar eclipse
May 2013: Grad student Che-Yu Chen wins NESSF fellowship
May 2013: Ed Shaya and Stacy McGaugh provide insight on Local Group gas clouds
May 2013: Students create Astronomy Gentleladies Network mentoring program
May 2013: Ms. Dorinda Kimbrell joins department as new Dir. of Admin. Services
Apr 2013: Prof. Derek Richardson selected as Meaker Visiting Prof. at Bristol
Apr 2013: Undergrad Phil Cowperthwaite wins Dorfman Prize for galaxy research
Apr 2013: Department volunteers entertain and enlighten public at Maryland Day
Apr 2013: Alum Don Yeomans (Ph.D. '70) makes Time's top 100 list for 2013
Apr 2013: Small Bodies Group participates in Hubble observations of Comet ISON
Apr 2013: Grad student Kari Helgason interviewed by Iceland National TV
Apr 2013: Undergrads Bittle, Cowperthwaite, Katz, & Matthews achieve High Honors
Apr 2013: Poem inspired by ASTR 410 exam wins Honorable Mention in competition
Apr 2013: Prof. Suvi Gezari's article featured on June cover of "Sky & Telescope"
Apr 2013: AstroTerps astronomy club undertakes public outreach in local schools
Apr 2013: Grad students Donaldson, Pasham, and Chen win Grad School fellowships
Apr 2013: Dr. Christopher Hamilton finds Io's volcanoes in unexpected locations
Apr 2013: Undergrads Cowperthwaite Katz, alumna Woolsey receive NSF awards
Mar 2013: "Sky & Telescope" Saturn's rings article features department members
Mar 2013: Dr. Dennis Bodewits leads team studying Comet ISON with Swift satellite
Mar 2013: Prof. Mike A'Hearn invited to testify for Congress on Near-Earth Objects
Mar 2013: Voice of Russia interviews Prof. Alberto Bolatto about new ALMA array
Mar 2013: Prof. Alberto Bolatto wins a Humboldt Fraunhofer-Bessel Research Award
Feb 2013: Professor Emeritus Don Wentzel passed away on Feb. 20, 2013
Feb 2013: Department prominently featured in media after meteor impact in Russia
Feb 2013: Alumna Alexandra Lockwood (B.S. '07) gives TEDxYouth talk
Feb 2013: Possible 'Comet of the Century' observed by Deep Impact spacecraft
Feb 2013: Alum Brett Morris (B.S. '12) detects an exoplanet cooling its host star
Jan 2013: Grad student Rodrigo Herrera Camus wins poster award at conference
Jan 2013: Undergrad Steffi Yen wins Chambliss Honorable Mention for AAS poster
Jan 2013: Dr. Peter Teuben chairs advisory committee for Astroph. Source Code Lib.
Jan 2013: High school student Mark Moretto selected as a semi-finalist for Intel STS
Dec 2012: Alum Kartik Sheth featured in NSF "Science Nation" report on ALMA
Nov 2012: Department offers two new courses for non-majors: ASTR 230 and 305
Nov 2012: Talk by Dr. Steve Squyres on Thurs., Nov. 15, on the Mars rovers
Oct 2012: Dr. Brigette Hesman leads Cassini study of Saturn's exceptional storm
Oct 2012: Dr. Gart Westerhout, first UMD Astronomy Director, passed away Oct. 15
Sep 2012: "JSI Scientists Jamboree" mini-symposium on Oct. 5
Sep 2012: Dr. Surja Sharma is editor of new book on complexity science
Aug 2012: Prof. Mike A'Hearn's paper leads Icarus' list of best articles
Aug 2012: Alum Mike McDonald '11 discovers record-breaking galaxy cluster
Aug 2012: Grad student Alice Olmstead wins 3 travel awards
Aug 2012: Marcia Segura, Alexander Kutyrev, and Noah Petro win NASA awards
Jul 2012: JSI workshop on "Nature's Particle Accelerators" in Annapolis, Oct. 22-25
Jul 2012: Discovery Channel Telescope holds "First Light Gala"
Jul 2012: Prof. Drake Deming discusses an exoplanet system similar to our own
Jul 2012: Professor Emeritus Roger Bell passes away
Jul 2012: Assistant Professor Suvi Gezari joins Department of Astronomy
Jun 2012: Alumna Janet Luhman '74 receives COSPAR Space Science Award
Jun 2012: Grad student Jithin George wins AAS Chambliss Honorable Mention
Jun 2012: President Loh helps make final pitch to NASA for Comet Hopper mission
Jun 2012: Department's 'transit of Venus' viewing well-attended, but clouded out
May 2012: Dr. Zoghbi and Prof. Reynolds find X-ray echoes from galactic black hole
Apr 2012: Department volunteers entertain and enlighten public at Maryland Day
Apr 2012: JSI mini-symposium on May 11 on counterparts to gravity wave sources
Apr 2012: Grad students strut their stuff, win prizes in GRID research competition
Apr 2012: Grad student Jessica Donaldson wins a Summer Research Fellowship
Apr 2012: Dr. Conor Nixon receives Goddard Science Award for work on Titan
Apr 2012: Team led by Dr. Dennis Bodewits monitors pristine Comet Garradd
Apr 2012: Grad student Hao Gong wins Wylie Fellowship for protostellar core work
Apr 2012: Prof. Doug Hamilton to speak on Pluto's moons for Apr. 14 "Planet Walk"
Apr 2012: Dr. Francesco Tombesi finds ultra-fast outflows from galactic black holes
Mar 2012: New images from Dawn reveal ancient material on Vesta's surface
Mar 2012: Undergrad Harley Katz awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Mar 2012: Dr. Neil Gehrels receives COSPAR's 2012 Massey Award
Mar 2012: JSI mini-symposium on Apr. 6 on plasma physics & particle acceleration
Mar 2012: June 4-6 conference: "Energetic Astronomy - Richard Mushotzky at 65"
Mar 2012: Prof. Dennis Papadopoulos' MURI project helps to protect satellites
Feb 2012: Elizabeth Warner interviewed by Channel 9 about the leap year
Feb 2012: JSI mini-symposium on Feb. 17 on accretion astrophysics
Jan 2012: Dr. Melissa Hayes-Gehrke selected as a 2011-12 CTE Lilly Fellow
Jan 2012: Grad student Alice Olmstead wins AAS Chambliss Student Award
Dec 2011: Department hosts NRAO Community Day on Thursday, Dec. 15
Nov 2011: Drs. Dennis Bodewits and Stefan Immler study asteroid's close passage
Oct 2011: Prof. Chris Reynolds receives UMD/Smithsonian Institution Seed Grant
Oct 2011: UMD-Goddard CRESST Interaction Day on Friday, Nov. 18, 1-5pm
Oct 2011: JSI mini-symposium on Nov. 4 on accretion and particle acceleration
Sep 2011: Dr. Meg Urry presents ADVANCE lecture on women in science
Sep 2011: Talk about M101 supernova by Dr. Peter Nugent draws a large crowd
Sep 2011: JSI mini-symposium on Sept. 16 reviewed current research projects
Sep 2011: Undergrad Steffi Yen wins the College Park Scholars' Shapiro Award
Aug 2011: Dr. Marc Pound featured on UMD Senate website for his service
Aug 2011: Ashley Zauderer and Shaye Storm detect a black hole consuming a star
Aug 2011: JSI workshop on "Near Field Cosmology" in Annapolis, Nov. 29-Dec. 1
Jul 2011: Grad students Edmund Hodges-Kluck and Mike Koss defend dissertations
Jul 2011: Prof. Alberto Bolatto finds massive amounts of water in quasar spectrum
Jul 2011: EPOXI teams and Dr. Dennis Wellnitz win NASA awards
Jul 2011: Undergrad Brett Morris makes UMD observatory's 1st exoplanet detection
Jul 2011: Prof. Doug Hamilton co-leader of team discovering Pluto's fourth moon
Jul 2011: Drake Deming and Jessica Sunshine join our professorial faculty
Jul 2011: Professors Pat Harrington and Mike A'Hearn retire
Jun 2011: Prof. Dennis Papadopoulos' work featured as a "Research Spotlight"
Jun 2011: Prof. Richard Mushotzky to receive NASA's Distinguished Service Medal
Jun 2011: UMD-led EPOXI science team publishes latest comet findings in Science
Jun 2011: New video of asteroid Vesta from Dawn space probe reveals dark spot
Jun 2011: Grad student Mike Koss discovers binary supermassive black holes
Jun 2011: Lauren Woolsey wins Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship and Physics thesis prize
May 2011: Grad student Kari Helgason wins NASA Earth & Space Science Fellowship
May 2011: Dr. Jessica Sunshine's CHopper proposal makes NASA mission shortlist
May 2011: Small Bodies Group studies rare asteroid collision with Swift satellite
Apr 2011: Dr. Surja Sharma wins CMNS Distinguished Research Scientist Prize
Apr 2011: Grad students Chen and Helgason win Summer Research Fellowships
Apr 2011: Grad student Mike McDonald wins CMNS Outstanding Grad Student Award
Apr 2011: Alumnus Paul Butler '93 elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences
Apr 2011: CRESST agreement with NASA/Goddard extended through 2016
Apr 2011: MaryAnn Phillips, Susan Lehr, and Chris Reynolds receive college awards
Apr 2011: Breakthrough simulation confirms cause of short gamma-ray bursts
Apr 2011: Undergrad Brian Holler chosen as a 2011-12 Merrill Presidential Scholar
Apr 2011: KwangHo Park and Rodrigo Camus Herrera winners in GRID competition
Mar 2011: Dr. Melissa Hayes-Gehrke's I-Series course featured in CTE newsletter
Mar 2011: Department hosts Planetary Decadal Survey meeting on Mar. 25, 3pm
Feb 2011: Prof. Sylvain Veilleux discovers 'smoking gun' for quasar extinction
Feb 2011: Prof. Stacy McGaugh tests alternative gravity theory MOND
Feb 2011: Grad student Megan DeCesar discovers two new millisecond pulsars
Feb 2011: Inaugural JSI mini-symposium Feb. 25 on "Millisecond Pulsars"
Feb 2011: First light from new CARMA correlator
Feb 2011: Prof. Alberto Bolatto receives 2010 Cottrell Scholar Award
Jan 2011: Grace Deming wins the 2011 AAS Education Prize
Jan 2011: Astronomy mourns the loss of undergrad Justin DeSha-Overcash
Dec 2010: CARMA Science Symposium Feb. 28-Mar. 1, 2011 at UC-Berkeley
Nov 2010: Prof. Andy Harris' spectrometer identifies galaxies from early Universe
Nov 2010: EPOXI/Deep Impact makes closest approach to Comet Hartley 2
Nov 2010: Deep Impact uses planet colors to predict appearance of alien Earths
Nov 2010: "The Ins and Outs of Black Holes" conference, Nov. 15-17
Oct 2010: Dr. Drake Deming and Dr. Jessica Sunshine to be hired as full Professors
Oct 2010: Emeritus Professor Bill Rose passes away at age 75
Sep 2010: Natsuha Kuroda and Albert Wavering win College Park Scholars awards
Sep 2010: Profs. McGaugh, C. Miller, and N. Miller lead public panel on 'Origins'
Aug 2010: Joint Ph.D. program with Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile approved
Aug 2010: Prof. Richard Mushotzky wins Goddard Award of Merit
Aug 2010: Prof. Alberto Bolatto receives NSF CAREER award
Jun 2010: Alumnus Charles Bennett awarded 2010 Shaw Prize for WMAP work
Jun 2010: CARMA open house in California a popular attraction
Jun 2010: Professor Emeritus Mukul Kundu passes away at age of 80
May 2010: Grad student Mike Koss leads SWIFT study of black hole activation
May 2010: Groundbreaking ceremony for Physical Sciences Complex on May 24
May 2010: University's observatory impresses, educates
May 2010: Prof. Richard Mushotzky to give Israel Pollak Distinguished Lecture
Apr 2010: Alumna Stefi Baum '87 receives 2010 Distinguished Alumna Award
Apr 2010: Undergrads shine at College Park Scholars Academic Showcase
Apr 2010: Dr. Neil Gehrels elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Apr 2010: Mia Bovill wins CMPS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Apr 2010: Prof. Harris and Dr. Hainline publish high-z starbirth study in Nature
Mar 2010: "Advances in Theoretical and Observational Cosmology" workshop
Mar 2010: Astronomy Department participates in 2010 Girl Scout Day
Mar 2010: Prof. Doug Hamilton wins UMD Regents' Award for Scholarship
Mar 2010: Drs. Jianyang Li and Neal Miller promoted
Mar 2010: Jen Miller discovers new planetary nebula
Mar 2010: UM and NASA/Goddard launch the Joint Space Science Institute (JSI)
Feb 2010: Prof. Alberto Bolatto's studies of early galaxies highlighted in Nature
Feb 2010: Alumnus Jim Ulvestad '81 appointed as NSF division director
Jan 2010: Prof. Mike A'Hearn helps produce NRC report "Defending Planet Earth"
Jan 2010: Whistler waves paper makes front cover of "Physics of Plasmas"
Jan 2010: HS students Curley and Wu are regional finalists in Siemens Competition
Jan 2010: Alumnus Jeff Newman '94 receives DoE Early Career Award
Jan 2010: Dr. Drake Deming is awarded the AAS Tinsley Prize
Jan 2010: Dr. Lori Feaga receives NASA Early Career Fellowship
Jan 2010: Prof. Stacy McGaugh reveals trends in galaxies' dark matter content
Dec 2009: Dr. Surja Sharma to give Lorenz Lecture at AGU meeting
Nov 2009: Prof. Richard Mushotzky finds evidence for a ‘middleweight’ black hole
Oct 2009: Prof. Doug Hamilton discovers giant new Saturn ring
Oct 2009: Dr. Peter Teuben and students star in "The Universe" episode
Sep 2009: EPOXI scientists confirm water on the Moon's surface
Sep 2009: Undergrad Val Klavans wins Shapiro Undergraduate Research Award
Sep 2009: Undergrad Erin Grand produces best-ever UV view of Andromeda Gal.
Jul 2009: "Women in Astronomy" meeting Oct. 21-23, 2009
Jun 2009: Dawn Science Team receives the NASA Group Achievement Award
Jun 2009: Dr. Richard Mushotzky joins the department
Apr 2009: Prof. Eve Ostriker selected as a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow
Feb 2009: Prof. Derek Richardson's asteroid work is a "Top 10" astronomy story
Feb 2009: Graduate students La Vigne and Winter poised for success
Jan 2009: Adjunct Professor Neil Gehrels awarded Henry Draper medal
Jan 2009: Postdoc Tamara Bogdanović awarded Einstein Fellowship
Dec 2008: Dr. Rosemary Killen discusses Mercury's exosphere at AGU
Nov 2008: Prof. Sylvain Veilleux has won a Humboldt Research Award
Oct 2008: Undergrad James Keane wins prize for best CPS research project
Oct 2008: Dr. Lucy McFadden edits award-winning encyclopedia

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09-Apr-2024: Partial Eclipse, Full Attention
09-Apr-2024: Thousands of UMD community members watch 2024 solar eclipse
08-Apr-2024: Two From UMD Awarded 2024 NASA Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships
04-Apr-2024: UMD-Led Astronomy Team Shows Off Stunning Capabilities of NASA's Most Powerful Space Telescope
02-Apr-2024: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Captures Images of Galaxy M82's Glowing Core and Galactic Wind
27-Mar-2024: UMD Astronomer Helps NASA Launch Tiny Satellite to Study Powerful Cosmic Explosions
07-Mar-2024: UMD Astrophysicist Benedikt Diemer Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
12-Jan-2024: NASA's Fermi Detects Surprise Gamma-Ray Feature Beyond Our Galaxy
28-Nov-2023: UMD Astronomer Helps Take a Closer Look at 'Dinky' Asteroid
11-Aug-2023: Quanzhi Ye Awarded 2023 Urey Prize from the American Astronomical Society
24-Jul-2023: Black Hole Expert Christopher Reynolds Rejoins UMD's Department of Astronomy
28-Jun-2023: Scientists Find First Evidence of Gravitational Waves at Extremely Low Frequencies
07-Jun-2023: New Study Finds Unique Structure of the 'BOAT' -- Brightest Gamma-ray Burst of All Time
12-Jun-2023: Astronomers Discover Supernova Explosion Through Rare 'Cosmic Magnifying Glasses'
15-May-2023: UMD Astronomer Leads Study that Finds Water, and a New Mystery, in Rare Main Belt Comet
10-May-2023: Researchers Measure the Light Emitted by a Sub-Neptune Planet's Atmosphere for the First Time
04-Apr-2023: Eighteen Science Terps Awarded 2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
29-Mar-2023: Join Our College for Maryland Day on Saturday, April 29
28-Mar-2023: Cool Science Courses to Take This Fall at UMD
03-Mar-2023: Rehearsals, Recitals and Research
01-Mar-2023: New NASA DART Data Prove Viability of Asteroid Deflection as Planetary Defense Strategy
01-Mar-2023: New DART Studies Confirm NASA Can Bump Asteroids Out of Collision Course With Earth
21-Feb-2023: Two Faculty Members Receive 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships
15-Feb-2023: Two UMD Faculty Members Receive 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships
09-Jan-2023: NASA's Retired Compton Mission Reveals Superheavy Neutron Stars
05-Dec-2022: Finding a New Spin on Supermassive Black Holes
28-Nov-2022: Rare Sighting of Luminous Jet Spewed by Supermassive Black Hole
17-Nov-2022: From 'Sesame Street' to the Stars Above
??-Nov-2022: UMD Faculty Key to James Webb Space Telescope Project
04-Nov-2022: Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Program Honors Top Students and Their Mentors
04-Nov-2022: A Different Way to 'Play' Video Games
21-Oct-2022: UMD Astronomer Helps Uncover Clues to Formation of Universe's Early Galaxies
20-Oct-2022: James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Massive Galaxy Cluster Surrounding a Powerful Red Quasar
28-Sep-2022: UMD Researchers Help Launch a Planetary Defense
19-Sep-2022: New Craters Discovered on Mars by UMD Geologist and NASA Team
30-Aug-2022: UMD Astronomers Part of Webb Telescope Team That Found First Evidence of Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere
29-Aug-2022: How Deep-Space Destruction Led to a 'Rubble Pile'
25-Aug-2022: NASA's Webb Telescope Detects First Evidence of Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere
25-Aug-2022: Wildfire Experts Provide Guidance for New Research Directions
26-Jul-2022: UMD Scientists Help Uncover Origins of Castaway Gamma-ray Bursts
11-Jul-2022: UMD Named a Host Institution for Prestigious Planetary Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
12-Jul-2022: Terps' Work Helped Create First Images From Webb Space Telescope
30-Jun-2022: Andrew Harris Reappointed as Chair of UMD's Department of Astronomy for Five-year Term
22-Jun-2022: UMD Astronomers on Team Selected by NASA for Moon Exploration Mission
18-Apr-2022: Supernova Ph.D. Student Selected for NASA Pathways
06-Apr-2022: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Awarded to 14 Science Terps
24-Feb-2022: Richard Mushotzky Awarded 2022 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship by American Astronomical Society
08-Feb-2022: UMD Astronomers Honored with American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division Awards
04-Feb-2022: Astronomers Trace Galaxy Flows Across 700 Million Light-Years
29-Nov-2021: New Study Shows Largest-Known Comet Was Active at Near-Record Distance
18-Nov-2021: New Study Shows the Largest Comet Ever Observed was Active at Near-Record Distance
18-Nov-2021: $32.5M NASA Funding Agreement Supports Study of Comets, Asteroids and Meteorites
16-Nov-2021: $32.5M Cooperative Agreement Between NASA and UMD Expands Public Access to Data on Comets, Asteroids and Other Small Bodies
14-Oct-2021: New Discovery May Offer Preview of Solar System's Demise
12-Oct-2021: New Discovery Offers a Glimpse of Our Solar System's Potential Fate when the Sun Dies
19-Aug-2021: Comet ATLAS May Have Been a Blast from the Past
26-Jul-2021: UMD-led Study Reveals a 'Fizzled' Gamma-ray Burst
15-Jul-2021: Dean's List: Spring 2021
14-Jul-2021: Three Science Terps Awarded 2021 NOAA Hollings Scholarships
23-Jun-2021: First Clear View of a Boiling Cauldron Where Stars are Born
07-Jun-2021: Triple Galaxy Merger Sends Mixed Signals
11-May-2021: UMD-led Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology Signs $178M Cooperative Agreement to Continue Partnership with NASA Through 2027
23-Apr-2021: Astronomy Ph.D. Student Awarded Prestigious NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
19-Apr-2021: NASA's NICER Probes the 'Squeezability' of Neutron Stars
25-Jan-2021: Dean's List: Fall 2020
12-Oct-2020: University of Maryland Astronomers Find X-rays Lingering Years After Landmark Neutron Star Collision
14-Sep-2020: Space Weather Mission Gets $1.25 Million and a Green Light for Feasibility Studies
17-Jul-2020: Dean's List: Spring 2020
09-Jul-2020: UMD Astronomy Professor Derek Richardson Receives Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize
06-May-2020: College Announces 2020 Employee Award Recipients
02-Apr 2020: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Awarded to 17 Science Terps
23-Mar 2020: Chandra Data Tests 'Theory of Everything'
16-Jan 2020: First Asteroid Found Inside Orbit of Venus
06-Jan 2020: Astronomers Spot Distant Galaxy Group Driving Ancient Cosmic Makeover
03-Dec 2019: UMD Astronomers Catch a Natural Comet Outburst in Unprecedented Detail
18-Sep 2019: UMD-led Study Captures Six Galaxies Undergoing Sudden, Dramatic Transitions
27-Aug 2019: Astronomers Find a Golden Glow From a Distant Stellar Collision
14-Aug 2019: UMD Astronomer Suvi Gezari Named Kavli Foundation Plenary Lecturer at 235th American Astronomical Society Meeting
31-Jul 2019: Distant "Heavy Metal" Gas Planet is Shaped Like a Football
11-Jul 2019: NASA Selects UMD-Led Proposal to Upgrade Lunar Instruments Placed by Apollo Missions
02-Jul 2019: NASA Awards UMD-led Team $7.3 Million to Study Moons of Earth and Mars, Nearby Asteroids
28-Jun 2019: UMD Professors Daniel Lathrop and Derek Richardson Named 2019 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers
28-Jun 2019: 'Oumuamua is Not an Alien Spacecraft
24-Apr 2019: The Past, Present and Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
04-Mar 2019: Astronomy's Douglas Hamilton Comments on Tilted Exoplanets Study - Scientific American
07-Feb-2019: Zwicky Transient Facility Spots a Bumper Crop of Supernovae, Black Holes and more
15-Jan 2019: Astronomy's Cole Miller Discusses Equation That Helps Conceptualize Search for Extraterrestrial Life - Scienceline
09-Jan 2019: Astronomers Map 'Light Echoes' of Newly Discovered Black Hole
11-Dec 2018: Now is Your Chance to See a Comet!
03-Dec 2018: Four New Gravitational Wave Events Detected from Black Hole Mergers
07-Nov 2018: Astronomers Find Pairs of Black Holes at the Centers of Merging Galaxies
31-Oct 2018: Astronomy's Erin Kara Awarded Inaugural Neil Gehrels Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship
19-Oct 2018: NASA's Fermi Mission Energizes the Sky with Gamma-ray Constellations
19-Oct 2018: 'Pulsar in a Box' Reveals Surprising Picture of a Neutron Star's Surroundings
16-Oct 2018: All in the Family: Kin of Gravitational Wave Source Discovered
17-Sep 2018: UMD Astronomer Co-authors National Academies Report Calling for Large Mission to Study Earth-like Exoplanets
08-Aug 2018: Astronomy's Suvi Gezari Discusses Her Research on Tidal Disruption Events - Quanta Magazine
01-Aug 2018: Three UMD Graduate Students Receive 2018 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships
17-Jul 2018: Astronomy's Douglas Hamilton Comments on Newly Discovered Moons of Jupiter - The Verge
14-Jun 2018: Astronomy's Erin Kara Comments on Study of Black Hole "Eating" a Star - The Atlantic
31-May 2018: UMD-led Study Shows How Earth Slows the Solar Wind to a Gentle Breeze
29-May 2018: UMD Astronomers Install All-sky Cameras on Campus and in Haiti
24-May 2018: College's Alumni Network Announces 2018 Summer Undergraduate Award Winners
10-May 2018: University Medal Awarded to Physics and Astronomy Senior Christopher Bambic
07-May 2018: College Announces 2018 Employee Award Recipients
17-Apr 2018: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Awarded to 10 College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Students
13-Feb 2018: Two UMD Science Majors Win Prestigious Churchill Scholarships
13-Feb 2018: Two UMD Science Majors Win Prestigious Churchill Scholarships
06-Feb 2018: University of Maryland to Have Key Role in Possible NASA Comet Mission
11-Jan 2018: NASA Renames Swift Mission in Honor of Neil Gehrels
11-Jan 2018: Spinning Comet Slows Down During Close Approach to Earth
13-Dec 2017: Three Seniors Honored as 2017 Merrill Presidential Scholars
13-Nov 2017: Zwicky Transient Facility Sees "First Light"
13-Dec 2017: UMD Astronomers Partner on Powerful New Automated Sky Survey
12-Dec 2017: Six College Faculty Members Elected American Physical Society Fellows
16-Oct 2017: Neutron Star Merger Directly Observed for the First Time
17-Oct 2017: UMD Researchers Contribute to First-ever Direct Observation of Neutron Star Merger
27-Sep 2017: Black Holes with Ravenous Appetites Define Type I Active Galaxies
07-Sep 2017: 66 Professional-Track Faculty Members Promoted in UMD College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
24-Aug 2017: Large, Distant Comets more common than Previously Thought
02-Aug 2017: Researchers Detect Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere
07-Aug 2017: UMD Scientists Find First Clear Evidence of an Upper Level Atmosphere on an Exoplanet
28-Jul 2017: Gamma-ray Burst Captured in Unprecedented Detail
17-Jul 2017: Three College Alumni Receive 2017 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships
13-Jul 2017: NASA Honors Renowned UMD Comet Science Pioneer Michael A'Hearn
30-Jun 2017: Andrew Harris Named Chair of UMD Department of Astronomy
20-Jun 2017: Three Graduate Students Receive 2017 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships
08-May 2017: College Announces 2017 Employee Award Recipients
07-Apr 2017: Three UMD Students Named 2017 Goldwater Scholars
12-Apr 2017: Three UMD Students Named 2017 Goldwater Scholars
30-Mar 2017: Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology Signs $87.5M Cooperative Agreement with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
27-Mar 2017: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Awarded to 10 College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Students
21-Mar 2017: Before and After: Unique Changes Spotted on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
01-Mar-2017: Rapid Changes Point to Origin of Ultra-fast Black Hole "Burps"
08-Mar 2017: Rapid Changes Point to Origin of Ultra-fast Black Hole "Burps"
22-Feb 2017: Neil Gehrels (1952-2017)
30-Nov 2016: Modeling Offers New Perspective on How Pluto's "Icy Heart" Came to Be
01-Dec 2016: UMD Model Offers New Perspective on How Pluto's "Icy Heart" Came to Be
31-Oct 2016: New Model Explains the Moon's Weird Orbit
13-Oct 2016: Building Bridges
22-Jun 2016: Dormant Black Hole Eats Star, Becomes X-Ray Beacon
08-Jun 2016: Three UMD Astronomy Graduate Students Receive NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships
12-May 2016: Space Mission First to Observe Key Interaction Between Magnetic Fields of Earth and Sun
12-May 2016: Space Mission First to Observe Key Interaction Between Magnetic Fields of Earth and Sun
04-Apr 2016: Four UMD Students Named 2016 Goldwater Scholars
04-Apr 2016: Mark Moretto One of Four UMD Students Named 2016 Goldwater Scholars
22-Mar 2016: Caught for the First Time: the Early Flash of an Exploding Star
22-Mar 2016: Caught for the First Time: the Early Flash of an Exploding Star
12-Nov 2015: UMD-led Team Maps Gas Emissions from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
06-Nov 2015: Three UMD Graduate Students Receive NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships
23-Oct 2015: Meet UMD Astronomy and Physics Major Junellie Gonzalez Quiles
21-Oct 2015: Astronomers Catch a Black Hole Shredding A Star to Pieces
15-Oct 2015: New Horizons Reveals Pluto's Striking Surface Variations & Unique Moon Rotations
28-Sep 2015: UMD, Partners Receive $4.5 Million to Study Cosmic Flashes
18-Sep 2015: Astronomers Identify a New Mid-size Black Hole
27-Jul 2015: Black Holes: Supermassive Guardians of the Galaxies
02-Jun 2015: Pluto's Moons Seen in Highest Detail Yet
19-Apr 2015: Pulsing Light May Indicate Supermassive Black Hole Merger
02-Apr 2015: Suzaku Studies Supernova 'Crime Scene,' Shows a Single White Dwarf to Blame
02-Apr 2015: Suzaku Studies Supernova 'Crime Scene,' Shows a Single White Dwarf to Blame
24-Mar 2015: Supermassive Black Hole Clears Star-making Gas From Galaxy's Core
09-Mar 2015: Heads Up! You Can Help Build the Maryland All-Sky Camera Network
17-Feb 2015: A New View of the Solar System: Astrophysical Jets Driven by the Sun
21-Jan 2015: Rosetta Data Give Closest-ever Look at a Comet
08-Dec 2014: Astronomers Discover Unique Spiral Galaxy with Twin "Jets" and "Halo"
20-Nov 2014: Dwarf Galaxy Mystery: 'Kicked' Black Hole or Mega Star?
17-Nov 2014: Rosetta's Onboard Camera Spots Philae Lander Drifting Across the Comet
11-Nov 2014: UMD Astronomers to Analyze Surface of Comet as Spacecraft Drops Robotic Probe on It
24-Sep 2014: Major Milestone in the Search for Water on Distant Planets
14-Aug 2014: Fascinating Rhythm: Light Pulses Illuminate Rare Black Hole
24-Jul 2014: Hubble Finds Three Surprisingly Dry Exoplanets
18-Jun 2014: Comet's Brush With Mars Offers Opportunity, Not Danger
03-Jan-2014: UMD Undergraduates Discover Rare Eclipsing Double Asteroid
03-Jan-2014: UMD Undergraduates Discover Rare Eclipsing Double Asteroid
03-Dec 2013: UMD-Led Research Finds Subtle Signs of Water on Faraway Planets
20-Sept 2013: UMD-Led Deep Impact Ends, Leaves Bright Comet Tale
19-Sep-2013: UMD-Led Deep Impact Ends, Leaves Bright Comet Tale
25-Jul 2013: Starburst "superwinds" keep galaxies thin
24-Jul 2013: Starburst Wind Keeps Galaxies 'Thin'
21-Jun-2013: Star-shredding black holes
23-Apr 2013: Hubble Brings Faraway Comet Into UMD Researchers' View
23-Apr 2013: Hubble Brings Faraway Comet Into View
29-Mar 2013: Astronomers Take a Closer Look at Comet ISON
05-Feb 2013: Comet Debuting in New Deep Impact Movie Expected to Star this Winter
07-Jun 2012: Dancing Among the Stars: UMD Space Mission in Final Round for Chance to 'Jitterbug' on Comet
31-May 2012: X-ray 'Echoes' Map a Supermassive Black Hole's Extreme Neighborhood
13-Apr 2012: UMD Team Monitors Pristine Comet Garradd To Watch It Twice Cross 'Snow Line'
03-Apr 2012: Two UMD Students Earn Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships
22-Jul 2011: Astronomers Discover Universe's Largest and Earliest Mass of Water
28-Jun 2011: Nearby Galaxy Boasts Two Monster Black Holes, Both Active
16-Jun 2011: UMD-Led EPOXI Science Team Publishes Latest Comet Findings in Science
11-May 2011: Comet Hopper, a UMD/NASA Goddard Proposal, Moves to 'Final Round' in NASA Selection Process
28-Apr 2011: UMD and UCLA-Led Teams Study Asteroid Collision With Swift and Hubble Telescopes
08-Apr 2011: Breakthrough Study Confirms Cause of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
23-Feb 2011: Quasar's Belch Solves Longstanding Mystery
22-Feb 2011: Gas Rich Galaxies Confirm Modified Gravity Prediction
18-Nov 2010: Spacecraft Flew Through 'Snowstorm' on Encounter with Comet Hartley 2
10-Nov 2010: Primordial Dry Ice Fuels Comet Jets
04-Nov 2010: UMD Leads Deep Impact Spacecraft on Successful Flyby of Comet Hartley 2
03-Nov 2010: University of Maryland, Leading Chilean University Create Joint Ph.D. Program
02-Nov 2010: UMD-Led Mission Films Jets of Material Coming from Comet
08-Sep 2010: UMD-Led Team Begins Imaging Comet Hartley 2 with Deep Impact Spacecraft
21-Jul 2010: Black Hole's Spin Moves Probably Result of Galactic Collision
25-Jun 2010: Deep Impact Spacecraft to Make Last Swing by Earth on Way to 2nd Comet
28-Apr 2010: UM Faculty among Scientists Newly Elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences
05-Mar 2010: UM and NASA-Goddard Create Space Science Institute and Sign Broad Agreement
06-Jan 2010: UM-Led Team Shines Cosmic Light on Missing Ordinary Matter
07-Oct 2009: Scientists Discover Huge, Nearly Invisible Ring Around Saturn
24-Sep 2009: Deep Impact and Other Spacecraft Find Clear Evidence of Water on Moon
14-Oct 2008: UM Astronomer Michael A'Hearn Awarded Kuiper Prize
17-Jul 2008: UM-Led Deep Impact Films Earth as Alien World
09-Jul 2008: Study Puts Solar Spin on Asteroids, their Moons & Earth Impacts
19-May 2008: Small Star Gets Swift Reaction with Unprecedented Flare
30-Apr 2008: Scientists Find Rings of Jupiter Are Shaped in Shadow
20-Mar 2008: Maryland Led Team Finds Oldest Known Asteroids
31-Dec 2007: Deep Impact Team 'Celebrates' New Year's Eve with Earth Flyby
13-Dec 2007: Deep Impact Extended Mission Heads for Comet Hartley 2
26-Jun 2007: Dawn Mission Scientist Available to Media
30-May 2007: Why Are Galaxies without Black Holes Uncommon? The Answer is Spin Alignment, Say UM researchers
29-May 2007: Spin of Supermassive Black Holes Measured for First Time
10-Apr 2007: Maryland Astronomers Crack 45-Year-Old Mystery
30-Oct 2006: UM Proposal for Deep Impact Extended Mission Clears Major Hurdle
27-Sep 2006: UM, UMBC and USRA Join Forces with NASA to Create Center for Space Science and Technology
25-Aug 2006: UM Astronomers Comment on Pluto's Demotion to "Dwarf Planet"
04-May 2006: Powerful CARMA Brings Cool, Far Out Astrophysics More in Focus
24-Apr 2006: Quiet, Old Black Holes Actually Rumble with Roar of Particle Jets
20-Apr 2006: Daughters of Deep Impact: UM Proposed Missions Could Clear Clouded Comet Picture
02-Feb 2006: Ice Exists on Surface of Comet, But Most Lies Deeper<
21-Dec 2005: "Space Picture of the Year!" Vote for UM-Led Deep Impact
16-Nov 2005: UM and Goddard Host 4-Day Meeting on Gamma-ray Astronomy
08-Nov 2005: Maryland-Led Deep Impact Wins Major Space Award
06-Sep 2005: New Deep Impact Results Add 'Color' to Unfolding Comet Picture
22-Aug 2005: Deep Impact Mission Update August 05
04-Jul 2005: UM-Led Comet Mission Is a Hit!
01-Jul 2005: Maryland-Led Comet Mission Prepares for Impact
29-Jun 2005: Maryland-Led Deep Impact: Local Media Opportunities
28-Jun 2005: UM-Led Deep Impact Observes Huge Comet Outburst
21-Jun 2005: Maryland-Led Deep Impact Detects Comet Nucleus
02-Jun 2005: Space Telescopes Sharpen View of Deep Impact Target
13-Jan 2005: Deep Impact Mission Launched Toward Comet
06-Jan 2005: Maryland-Led Comet Mission Almost Ready for Launch
11-Oct 2004: UM: Making a Deep Impact on Space Exploration
01-Jul 2004: UM-Built Sensor on Cassini Begins to Shed Light on Saturn's Magnetosphere
04-Jun 2004: UM Viewing of First Transit of Venus in 122 Years
05-May 2004: Maryland's Grads Have Nothing To Fear
14-Jan 2004: Solar System Exploration Experts
16-Dec 2003: These Maryland Grads Are At The Top Of Their Class
10-Dec 2003: Maryland Grads Face The Future With Terrapin Pride
20-Nov 2003: Galactic Winds Blow Away Idea of 'Island Universe'
27-Aug 2003: UM Expert/Photo Op: Close Encounter with Mars
22-May 2003: UM Students Winning More National Scholarships
08-May 2003: Put Your Name On a Speeding Comet
02-Jul 2002: High-Energy Activity Heats Up the Whirlpool
08-Feb 2002: Maryland Led Project Takes Big Step Toward 2005 Comet Collision
07-Jan 2002: New Evidence Indicates Large Black Holes May Lurk in Star Clusters
22-Oct 2001: Newest X-Ray Telescope Detects Evidence of Energy Escaping from Massive Black Hole
25-May 2001: NASA Gives Go Ahead for Building of 'Deep Impact' Spacecraft
19-Apr 2001: UM Scholars Student Headed to NASA For Prestigious Summer Program
30-Mar 2001: UM Named One of 16 Sites Nationwide For "Teacher as Scholars" Program
07-Dec 2000: Almost 4,000 Candidates for December Commencement
06-Nov 2000: Catching a Galactic Football: Chandra Examines Cygnus A
27-Sep 2000: Accuracy of Astronomer's Predictions Challenges Accepted View of Universe
06-Jun 2000: Spectacular X-Ray Jet Points Toward Cosmic Particle Accelerator
04-Apr 2000: NASA Astronaut Lands at the University of Maryland--Space communicator speaks to students
04-Feb 2000: Spacecraft and Asteroid Rendezvous on Valentine's Day
18-Jan 2000: Lunar Eclipse on View Thursday, January 20, 2000
14-Sep 1999: Whiting-Turner Honors Long-Time Executive With Endowed Chair at University of Maryland
09-Sep 1999: Proposed Cuts in NASA Funding Would Stop Key Science and Technology Research
01-Sep 1999: Stephen Halperin Named Dean of College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
07-Jul 1999: 'Deep Impact' - a UM-Led Mission to Excavate and Study a Comet's Nucleus - Wins NASA Approval
07-Jan 1998: Energy Cycle Makes ETA CARINAE The Brightest Radio Star in the Sky

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