The Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) is proud to announce that William Balmer (they/them) has been named Northwestern University’s first Heising-Simons Fou...

The School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin invites applications for a position at the level of Assistant Professor in the field of observational or theoretical astrophysics. We seek motivated ind...

Here we present an open-source cloud model for substellar atmospheres, called Virga. The Virga-v0 series has already been widely adopted in the literature. It is written in Python and has heritage fro...

Northwestern University is excited to be a host institution for the Heising-Simons Foundation’s 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. Fellows can collaborate on planetary astronomy research and can benefit from aff...

Welcome New Postdoctoral Researchers! We are delighted to announce fourteen postdocs will be joining the CIERA community in fall 2025. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to these fantastic re...

Recently, astronomers have been puzzled by an unknown type of cosmic radio signal. A new breakthrough has finally traced one of them.

A Software Engineering Workshop for Astronomy

New study shows planet formation might be more complicated than previously thought

Faculty will contribute expertise in astrophysics, engineering and artificial intelligence

Hello world! This is the full recording of the 2024 Code/Astro workshop. Here are some useful resources: Workshop website: https://semaphorep.github.io/codea...

This Google Colab Notebook is in the form of computational essay explaining how to produce spectral energy distribution plots for young stellar objects. - jimmynewland/sed-computational-essay

NASA and U.S. Government policies address research and personal misconduct, and provide avenues for reporting potential violations.

Isolated planetary-mass objects share their mass range with planets but do not orbit a star. They lack the necessary mass to support fusion in their cores and thermally radiate their heat from formati...

The $\sim$5 Myr PDS 70 is the only known system with protoplanets residing in the cavity of the circumstellar disk from which they formed, ideal for studying exoplanet formation and evolution within i...