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Ohio State Astrophysicist and COSI Chief Scientist Dr. Paul Sutter accepted the award for "Best Director" at the Escape Velocity Film Festival for Song of the Stars! The award cited the innovative…

John Beacom, Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP), has been named one of seven new Arts and Science Distinguished…

Scott Gaudi has been awarded the NASA Outstanding Public Leadership Medal for his 'outstanding leadership as the ExoPlanet Program Analysis Group Chairperson having significant impact on NASA's…

On August 8, 2017, Subo Dong, a faculty member of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics of Peking University and 2009 OSU Astronomy PhD recipient was awarded the Su-Shu Huang Prize of…

The Department of Astronomy and CCAPP hosted our eleventh annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium on August 4, 2017. Students who participated in our Summer Undergraduate Research Program…

The Department of Astronomy hosted a Teacher Resource Day for local elementary and middle school teachers on Tuesday, August 1st. Teachers learned about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's classroom…

Professors Scott Gaudi and Andy Gould, Postdoctoral Researchers Matthew Penny and Radek Poleski, and former PhD student Calen Henderson, are part of a 17-member international team who received…

Astronomer Scott Gaudi, Thomas Jefferson Professor for Discovery and Space Exploration, co-led an international team that has discovered the hottest planet known. The team has…

For the first time, astronomers have seen a dying star collapse directly into a black hole, rather than explode as a supernove. The star was about 25 times as massive as our Sun, and this fizzle…