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A study led by Ohio State University astronomers has refined measurements of the universe’s primordial helium abundance to an unprecedented precision of nearly 0.5%, down from previous 2%…
New data fortifies modern physics insights, researchers say
New observations regarding the composition of distant galaxies reveal insights into the earliest phases of the universe that…
About a year and a half ago, Ohio State University astronomy professor David Weinberg wasn't sure whether the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would ever make it to space.
On Aug. 30,…
Faculty, students, and staff from The Ohio State University celebrated the successful launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope—a mission aimed at uncovering the secrets of dark matter,…
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to launch Aug. 30
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new telescope built with a field of view large enough to unravel some of the universe’s most mysterious puzzles will soon aim…
Work from Department of Astronomy doctoral student Jennifer Rodriguez and Professor Laura Lopez was recently featured by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory group…
CCAPP would like to congratulate the following postdocs and students who have already accomplished so much and are moving on to do great things in their next positions. We will miss you!
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CCAPP is proud to announce Josephine Baggen (Yale University) and William Cerny (Yale University) as the winners of the 2026 Price Prize in Cosmology and…
We are excited to announce and welcome in the newest CCAPP Postdocs starting this fall 2026!
Federico Berlfein, Bill Chen, Hiram Herrera, Chloe Richards, Ce Sui, Claire Ye
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A new study led by Ohio State researchers reveals how young, massive stars play a critical role in shaping galaxy evolution. By analyzing thousands of star-forming regions, the team found that…
Award is one of the most prestigious honors university bestows on its alumni
Lars Bildsten of the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the 2026 recipient of the Joseph Sullivant…
Congratulations to Barbara (picture attached!), who was recognized for her book Celestial and Stellar Dynamics at "Written in Scarlet and Gray," the Faculty Author Showcase put on earlier…
Congratulations to Chris Kochanek, an Ohio Eminent Scholar at The Ohio State University, who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his pioneering achievements in…
Five-year mission completed as dark matter research expands
COLUMBUS, Ohio – In pursuit of understanding the role dark energy plays in complex physics, researchers have marked completion of a…
To celebrate the hard work and dedication of our graduate students, CCAPP hosted an Appreciation Lunch filled with great food and even better company. It wasn't just about the meal; students put…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will conduct a vast High-Latitude Wide-Area Survey, mapping more than 5,000 square degrees of the sky with Hubble-quality imaging to study hundreds of millions of…
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has named Chris Kochanek, Ohio Eminent Scholar and a professor in the Department of Astronomy, as one of 23 AAS Fellows for 2026. Kochanek was honored for…
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The 2026 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for astronomy writing for an academic audience, specifically textbooks at…
Four CCAPP graduate students have been awarded the 2025-2026 Presidential Fellowship!
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the…
by Tatyana Woodall (Ohio State News)
In a new analysis, physicists provide the most precise picture yet of how neutrinos change ‘flavor’ as they travel through the cosmos…
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The Dark…
Newfound binary system is a cosmic oddball, researchers say.
Ohio State News Article, written by Tatyana Woodall
Stars die and vanish from sight all the time, but…
Elementary particle physics reflects the human quest to understand the basic building blocks of nature and the rules that govern the physical world. At the request of the Department of Energy and…
CCAPP is proud to announce Gokul Prem Srinivasaragavan (U. Maryland) and Vedant Chandra (Harvard) as the winners of the 2025 Price Prize in Cosmology and…
The Trump administration proposed plans on May 2 to dramatically slash NASA's budget in its 2026 "skinny budget," an outline of how it anticipates allocating government funds during the next…
The Ohio State University recently named Molly Wolfson as one of the 2025 cohort of President's Postdoctoral Scholars!
The President’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program (PPSP), supported by the…
These measurements provide much the strongest evidence to date that the "dark energy" that drives the accelerating expansion of the universe is itself evolving in time, with surprising properties…
Professor Mike Lisa has been named a recipient of the 2025 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award!
This is an annual award given by Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry in…
Daniella Roberts, a CCAPP Alumna, was featured in APS news article "Persistence pays off for APS Bridge Program graduate, now aviation data scientist" retelling "Her road from loathing physics to…
Prof. Laura Lopez has been awarded a 2025 College of Arts & Sciences Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award. These awards recognize outstanding performance in all three areas of research, teaching,…
"Adam Leroy has helped lead a new era of interstellar medium science"
Congratulations to Adam Leroy who has been awarded the 2025 Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences…
Department of Astronomy faculty members Laura Lopez (Associate Professor) and David Weinberg (Distinguished University Professor) have been named as 2025 Fellows of the American Astronomical…
Ranjan Laha, an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is one of two winners of the 2024 ICTP Prize from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste,…
An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar explosion ever observed.
This rare supernova,…
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final…
Professor Kaeli Hughes's $729K NSF Grant, WoU-MMA: Cosmic Ray and Background Identification with RNO-G, has just received funding!
Abstract from the NSF:
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Physicists say particle-finding technique has value on Earth
Cosmic rays could offer scientists another way to track and study violent tornadoes and other severe weather phenomena, a new study…
Engaged Scholars is a series highlighting Ohio State faculty who have made an impact in our communities through their community-engaged research and teaching.
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Caitlin O’Brien grew up surrounded by space. Some of her fondest childhood memories are watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos with her dad. As an undergrad majoring in astronomy and astrophysics…
CCAPP is proud to announce Abigail Lee (U. Chicago) and Hanjue Zhu (U. Chicago) as the winners of the 2024 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics!
Abigail’s research focuses on improving…
One of our recent undergraduate alums, Caitlin O’Brien, working with two other undergraduates, was selected last year for the President’s Buckeye Accelerator Award. Their project, called Solstice…
Researchers at The Ohio State University played a major role in analyzing the first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s survey into the history of the universe.…
JWST data reveals how dust, gas assemble to form galactic disks
For the first time, high-resolution images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope are offering…
Where do stars and planets come from? New observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s groundbreaking new James Webb Space Telescope, and the giant radio telescope ALMA reveal galaxies in…
Ohio State Energy Partners (OSEP), the university’s comprehensive energy management partnership, has announced 2023-24 grants for projects that advance access to STEM education for people with…
Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and below the Milky Way galaxy’s center.
In a…
Harrison Blake, a rising senior, has been awarded the Astronaut Scholarship, which recognizes outstanding students in STEM pursuing research careers.
Blake was awarded the scholarship for…
An Ohio State University astronomy professor has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a scientist can receive in the U.S.
David…
CCAPP is proud to announce Dhayaa Anbajagane (U. Chicago) and Jason Hinkle (U. Hawaii) as the winners of the 2023 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics!
Dhayaa's research program…
In a new study, researchers in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy have taken an important step toward understanding how exploding stars can help reveal how neutrinos, mysterious subatomic…
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of interstellar observation, an international team of researchers was able to serendipitously view an exploding supernova in a…
Caitlin O’Brien and her team won one of the 6 President's Buckeye Accelerator awards last night. 11 ventures made their final pitch in the Ohio Union last night brought to us by the Keenan Center…
Researchers participating in the PHANGS collaboration, or Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies, are using the telescope's infrared capabilities to study 19 spiral galaxies. “The…
Congratulations to postdoc and former OSU grad student Keith McBride who has been awarded the University of Chicago’s Grainger Postdoctoral Fellowship, one of the premier physics…
Astronomers have found a way to peer into the physics of some of the brightest stars in the sky.
Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, an international team of…
Congratulations to Heyang Long, Rachel Patton, and Carton Zeng for being selected as Presidential Fellows this year!
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the…
Meteors may help astronomers devise a new way to locate dark matter – mysterious and invisible particles that have so far only been discerned by the effect they have on the natural world.
Congratulations to our very own Paul Martini for being elected to be a 2022 American Physical Society Fellow. Quoting from the announcement, “The APS Fellowship Program recognizes members…
For his work "challenging conventional theories and engineering new tools to detect ultra-high energy sub-atomic particles that could hold clues to long held mysteries of our universe", former…
Galactic superwinds – large outflows of gas created by a combination of supernova explosions and stellar winds – are closely connected to a galaxy’s earliest stages of development and evolution,…
CCAPP is proud to announce Cyndia Yu (Stanford) and Maddie Lucey (UT Austin) as the winners of the 2022 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics!
Cyndia works on novel instrumentation and…
Dustin Nguyen is one of two Buckeyes to be awarded NASA's Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Grant for PhD students. There were a total of 927…
Our jaws are still on the floor after seeing the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope. This image, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, is the highest-resolution image of the early universe…
John Beacom, director of CCAPP, was one of 11 awarded a 2022 Outreach and Engagement Funded Impact Grant for development of SciAccess, Inc., an international non-profit organization dedicated to…
For two decades, scientists have been unable to decide exactly how much heavier elements such as oxygen and carbon — crucial for sustaining life-forms like humans —contribute to the sun’s…
By applying machine-learning techniques to the Ohio State-operated All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN). ASAS-SN analyst Collin Christy and graduate student of astronomy Tharindu…
Dr. Krzysztof Z. Stanek, professor of Astronomy, was one of two Ohio State Faculty awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2022. Dr. Stanek was one of the 180 American and Canadian scientists and…
Filled with great stories and highlights about the department over the past two years, the Spring 2022 OSU Physics Magazine has been made available online!
Print versions can be found in the…
Neutrinos — almost-massless subatomic particles — zip through matter all the time. John Beacom, the Henry L. Cox Professor of Physics and Astronomy as well as the director of CCAPP, researches…
Physicist and science communicator Paul M. Sutter has been named recipient of the 2022 James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building and Communication, for which we congratulate him!
In 2004, astronomers in Hawaii discovered an unknown dwarf planet on the far edges of the solar system. But before they could announce their findings, another team of astronomers announced their…
Krzysztof Stanek, professor and University Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Astronomy received the 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships.
Stanek, whose time at Ohio State…
Under the guidance of The Ohio State University at Newark Associate Professor Mike Stamatikos, PhD, Newark’s SciDome — located at The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art & Technology — has…
Tharindu Jayasinghe Arachchilage, graduate student in the Department of Astronomy, thought he had discovered two star systems — Unicorn and Giraffe — with invisible black holes. Instead,…
Every spring, the Ohio State Office of Outreach and Engagement honors faculty, staff, students and community partners engaged in scholarship that impacts the community.
Among those honored…
OSU Physics and CCAPP graduate student Dustin Nguyen won 1st place in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences category at the 36th Hayes Forum on Friday, March 4th, 2022. Dustin presented his…
Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor and CCAPP director John Beacom was one of three College of Arts and Sciences faculty to receive 2022 Distinguished Scholar Awards. Congratulations!
Astronomers have used a new technique to confirm a real-life Tatooine, the fictional planet with two suns that was home to Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars.”
Scientists already knew that the…
In celebration of Black History month, the STEMcoding Project led by Prof. Chris Orban teamed up with Jahmour Givans from the OSU Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) to develop…
The High Energy Astrophysics Division (also known as HEAD) has announced that it is awarding its 2022 Early Career Prize to Ohio State University's Prof. Laura Lopez.
This prize honors…
In November of 2021, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council elected 564 Fellows of AAAS, honoring members whose efforts on the advancement of science distinguished…
Though it’s only about 10% through its five-year mission, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has capped off the first seven months of its survey run by smashing through all previous…
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded the Humboldt Research Award to Adam Leroy, an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy who uses multi-wavelength…
A PBS Space Time segment featuring Samir Mathur, a professor in the Department of Physics, examines how string theory could be the key to solving the paradoxical existence of black holes.
David Weinberg, Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of Astronomy, was named in Clarivate's 2021 list of Highly Cited Researchers. This recognition is due to the fact…
Time dilation, the theory that time passes differently for different observers, affects many aspects of our lives that we don’t realize. Distinguished Professor of Astronomy Richard Pogge says GPS…
By examining data from the Ohio State-run All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), volunteer citizen scientists around the world identified 10,000 new variable stars, discoveries that…
On November 6th, join the Central Ohio Symphony and CCAPP Paul Sutter in Delaware, Ohio for Into the Void: A Journey into a Black Hole for Orchestra and an Astrophysicist. This concert…
Michael Stamatikos, PhD, is part of the collaboration for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive astroparticle physics experiment located at the South Pole. Stamatikos' work will be featured…
Engaged Scholars is a monthly series highlighting Ohio State faculty who have made an impact in our communities through their community-engaged research and teaching. Photo:…