Northwestern has secured a $20 million grant, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation, to develop a new artificial intelligence institute for astrophysics research, the University...

Northwestern President Michael Schill announced a new Advisory Committee on Free Expression and Institutional Speech in a University-wide statement Monday.  Pritzker Prof. Erin Delaney, who specializes...

Astronomy Magazine recognized physics and astronomy Prof. Wen-fai Fong as one of 25 “Rising Stars in Astronomy” for her specialization in transients, according to a Northwestern news release Thursday.  Transients...

A space mission involving Northwestern astrophysicists has been selected as a finalist to lead NASA’s Explorers Program, the University announced in a news release. The STAR-X mission, one of two...

An international team of astrophysicists, including two Northwestern researchers, detected the first black hole-neutron star mergers, according to a Wednesday news release. The researchers detected...