We are delighted to announce that Josh Carroll will be the new ASCTech Senior Systems Manager for Astronomy! Josh comes to us from Math and Statistics where he led the ASCTech…
An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets – planets that float in space without orbiting a sun – than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes.
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This summer, the OSU Department of Astronomy hosted 18 students for the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP). These students conducted astronomy research projects that were performed…
Supernovae are some of the brightest objects in the Universe, not only in light but also in neutrinos. In 1987, neutrino experiments got their first sampling of these supernova…
Two Ohio State Astronomers make the Office of Research's list of 150 years of innovation.
Congratulations to
Kris Stanek for his research on the explosive deaths of…
For two decades, astronomers have argued over how much carbon, nitrogen and especially oxygen lie within our closest star — a dispute with implications for the entire universe.
Astronomers are preparing to further study the atmospheres of planets discovered through NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission to identify the most promising…
A new three-dimensional map, built after decades of collecting and analyzing data from the skies, shows how the…
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From July 12-28 you can see this incredible comet gracing our skies just after sunset in the Northwest horizon, right under the Big…
