September 18, 2025 Graduate Student earns Chambliss Award September 2, 2025 Breakthrough Model Explains Origins of Black Holes , Early Cosmic Ionization July 28, 2025 Students earn VAS Poster Prize May 5, 2025 Student Worker Recognized April 23, 2025 Chevalier elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences April 9, 2025 Ryan Boyden NRAO Press Release March 31, 2025 29th Annual Physics Day: April 21, 2025 March 23, 2025 Verbiscer Selected To Join NASA Lucy Mission March 14, 2025 UVA Today: Pryal Discusses Lunar Eclipse March 4, 2025 Kelsey Johnson's New Book: Into the Unknown February 21, 2025 The 2024 YR4 Asteroid February 11, 2025 Inside A&S: Admin Coordinator Featured November 18, 2024 Sam Crowe is latest Rhodes Scholar November 13, 2024 Yisheng Tu Wins 244 Chambliss Student Award November 11, 2024 Ilse Cleeves Named Dean's Research Fellow November 8, 2024 Xena Fortune-Bashee wins first place in SPS Undergrad Symposium November 8, 2024 Prof. Kallivayalil: Is Our Galaxy Unique? November 6, 2024 Astronomers Scrutinize Jupiter’s Great Red Spot September 30, 2024 New High-Res Images of North Star September 27, 2024 Matt Pryal Discusses "Mini Moon" September 17, 2024 UVA to Co-Host AI-Powered Astronomy Institute September 6, 2024 Melisse Bonfand Earns 2nd in Postdoc Symposium September 5, 2024 Blaze Star, if it Flares, Will Be Clearly Visible April 16, 2024 Sam Crowe earns Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship March 28, 2024 Roger Chevalier Earns HEAD Distinguished Career Prize February 7, 2024 UVA Today: Astronaut Leland Melvin Visits UVA January 16, 2024 Undergraduate Sam Crowe on JWST Research November 20, 2023 Kara Green Wins Beth Brown Award October 27, 2023 Alden House: Ghosts of UVA Astronomy October 4, 2023 Anne Verbiscer talks to UVA Today about OSIRIS-REx mission August 10, 2023 Matt Pryal: How to View the Perseid Meteor Shower July 20, 2023 Zhi-Yun Li and Zhe-Yu Lin Collaboration with ALMA Furthers Planet Formation Research July 18, 2023 Nick James Explores the Universe from the Classroom July 10, 2023 Scott Ransom's Work with NANOGrav Presents New Findings July 10, 2023 Hoos Building Bridges Award: Gabby Fuller March 2, 2023 PBS NOVA Special - first resultes from JWST February 3, 2023 Two astronomy faculty win Research Achievement Awards January 27, 2023 Artemis I Tees Up Manned Mission to the Moon January 13, 2023 Dr. Anne Verbiscer looks for oceans on Pluto January 12, 2023 Current and former students sculpt the "Local Bubble" January 9, 2023 UVA Astronomy is Hiring November 3, 2022 UVA Astro welcomes new faculty member: Maryam Modjaz October 18, 2022 Rising Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship September 28, 2022 UVA Astronomer Discusses Successful NASA DART Test September 1, 2022 Matt Pryal speaks on Artemis Moon Mission July 15, 2022 UVA Astronomers on James Webb Telescope First Light July 7, 2022 UVA Astronomy Student Joins Ranks of Astronaut Scholars July 5, 2022 Professor Trinh Xuan Thuan wins the 2022 Grand Prix de la Francophonie May 11, 2022 Nitya Kallivayalil receives All-University Teaching Award April 11, 2022 3rd-Year Undergrad Researcher Named Goldwater Scholar April 7, 2022 UVA Astronomers Will Map the Unmapped in Outer Space February 24, 2022 Ilse Cleeves Named Cottrell Scholar December 13, 2021 Professor John Hawley has passed away after a long fight with cancer November 23, 2021 Galaxy Collisions Preview Milky Way's Fate August 25, 2021 Research Corporation Backs a Radical New Approach to Astronomical Imaging August 23, 2021 Nitya Kallivayalil invited to Awesome-Con July 20, 2021 Girls Exploring the Universe (GETU) 2021 Virtual Summer Camp July 14, 2021 Seed Funding for Stellar Populations Research in the Local Universe May 28, 2021 Xinlun Cheng wins a Jefferson Graduate Fellowship May 20, 2021 Amina Diop named as first John F. Angle Graduate Fellow in Astronomy May 7, 2021 Whitney Wills Richardson Wins Hoos Building Bridges Award April 5, 2021 Like Peas in a Pod: UVA Astronomer's Survey of Young Stars Published March 31, 2021 UVA Faculty and Student Research Feature March 3, 2021 UVA Astronomers among first projects on JWST February 18, 2021 Dr. Kelsey Johnson President-Elect of AAS February 2, 2021 Astronomer John Hawley Named AAS Fellow January 22, 2021 Professor Ilse Cleeves Wins Award for Research January 4, 2021 UVA Graduate, Dr. Jake Turner, detects possible exoplanet radio emission December 16, 2020 Nitya Kallivayalil’s research featured in Quanta magazine October 15, 2020 Mark Whittle awarded a Jefferson Scholars Foundation 2020 Award for Excellence in Teaching June 19, 2020 Astronomer Ilse Cleeves Recognized Among Women Leaders in ‘STEM2D’ May 29, 2020 2020 Department of Astronomy Awards May 20, 2020 Students receive Double Hoo Award to study Exoplanets April 29, 2020 Thankful Cromartie awarded Allan T. Gwathmey Memorial Award March 25, 2020 Thankful Cromartie is awarded a NASA Einstein Fellowship February 27, 2020 Roger Chevalier selected as American Astronomical Society Legacy Fellow December 20, 2019 South Africa's MeerKAT peers deep into the Universe December 20, 2019 Building a Cluster of Galaxies - the Shocking Truth! December 4, 2019 TED Talk by Professor Kelsey Johnson: 5 Ridiculously Easy Ways to Fix Light Pollution October 15, 2019 Ilse Cleeves Awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering September 23, 2019 Graduate Student Thankful Cromartie Leads a Nature Astronomy Paper September 10, 2019 A New View of the Moon September 3, 2019 Volcanically active exo-moons July 8, 2019 Nitya Kallivayalil Wins PECASE Award July 2, 2019 "Chasing the Moon" Screening & Panel Discussion July 2, 2019 Telescope for Schools, Scouts, bring Astronomy to live for children in Virginia June 7, 2019 Timothy P. McCullough, Jr. Scholarship in Astronomy April 29, 2019 Spinning black hole has rapidly pivoting jets April 24, 2019 Reaching for the Stars in the UVA Community April 23, 2019 Mengyao Liu Wins Two Prestigious Awards March 18, 2019 Spiraling Giants: Witnessing the Birth of a Massive Binary Star January 30, 2019 AAS 233 Chambliss Student Awards Winners January 17, 2019 Total Lunar Eclipse - Jan 2019 January 15, 2019 UVa Astronomer Helps to Image Ultima Thule January 9, 2019 “Lazy” Start of Star Formation Find from SDSS January 8, 2019 The Heart of the Lion September 12, 2018 Ultima Thule Occultation in Senegal May 14, 2018 Rapid Results from the Gaia Data Release 2 May 1, 2018 Virginia Initiative on Cosmic Origins January 10, 2018 Unraveling the Mysteries of Colossal Stars January 10, 2018 Ilse Cleeves Wins the Annie Jump Cannon Award December 13, 2017 Unafraid to Ask More: APOGEE October 28, 2017 John Wilson Awarded the Muhlmann Prize of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific September 25, 2017 Oxygen-deficient Dwarf Galaxy Hints at Makings of Early Universe September 14, 2017 UVA Astronomer Celebrates the Success of Cassini August 18, 2017 August 21, 2017 Eclipse in Charlottesville July 19, 2017 Success! New Horizons Team Sees Occultation by 2014 MU69 June 8, 2017 UVA Students, Faculty, and Staff Chase Shadow of Kuiper Belt Object Across South Africa May 20, 2017 Celebrating Our Undergraduate Prize Winners May 11, 2017 UVa Astronomers Track Distant Star Cluster with Adaptive Optics May 11, 2017 Astronomers Make Detailed Map of Lava Lake on Jupiter's Moon Io May 9, 2017 Kelsey Johnson Named Director of Echols Scholars Program April 26, 2017 Universe of Mysteries April 7, 2017 UVA Astronomy-Physics Student Named Goldwater Scholar March 27, 2017 Sky Surveyors March 25, 2017 Written in the Stars January 23, 2017 Mergers and Acquisitions January 20, 2017 UVA APOGEE-South Team Installs Spectrograph January 17, 2017 Setting An Example December 22, 2016 Kelsey Johnson interviewed after NSF talk November 16, 2016 APOGEE: A $6 MILLION SPECIAL DELIVERY FROM UVA TO CHILE November 10, 2016 Kelsey Johnson Inspires the Next Generation at Girls Day in STEM-H September 22, 2016 Balloon Flight to the Stratosphere August 10, 2016 Minority Students Rave About Science Research June 10, 2016 Searching the Kuiper Belt May 19, 2016 Posthumous Paper Resolves Century-Old Mystery of How Stars Evolve May 9, 2016 First Annual Astronomy Undergraduate Research Symposium April 21, 2016 UVA Astronomers Find Oasis in Brown Dwarf Desert April 18, 2016 Undergraduate Student Martine Lokken Wins Minerva Award March 23, 2016 Illimitable: Pluto Up Close March 18, 2016 Dr. Sabrina Stierwalt Honored as an International Rising Talent March 17, 2016 Science Highlights New Horizons Results March 10, 2016 Graduate Student Wins ARCS Scholarship February 26, 2016 VICUNAS Astronomy Partnership with Chile January 26, 2016 Astronomers Find Six New Millisecond Pulsars January 13, 2016 Green Pea Galaxy Provides Insights to Early Universe Evolution January 8, 2016 The First Global Age Map of the Milky Way Galaxy December 13, 2015 Dark Skies, Bright Kids receives Packard Foundation Award December 10, 2015 Seeing Stars: UVA Leads the Development of APOGEE-2 December 5, 2015 Human Computer December 4, 2015 ‘Everyday Einstein’ Sabrina Stierwalt Brings Everyday Science to Everybody November 18, 2015 UVA Scientists See Pluto Up Close November 17, 2015 UVA Astronomers Study Huge Lava Lake on Jupiter's moon Io June 11, 2015 Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) June 10, 2015 The true extent of Saturn's outermost ring May 29, 2015 UVA Astronomers Contribute to Landmark Observations of Jupiter's Moon Io May 15, 2015 Sandra Liss was the Departmental Award Winner in this year's Graduate Teaching Awards Competition May 14, 2015 This cosmic 'dinosaur egg' is about to hatch May 8, 2015 Department Awards
October 15, 2020 Mark Whittle awarded a Jefferson Scholars Foundation 2020 Award for Excellence in Teaching
December 4, 2019 TED Talk by Professor Kelsey Johnson: 5 Ridiculously Easy Ways to Fix Light Pollution
May 15, 2015 Sandra Liss was the Departmental Award Winner in this year's Graduate Teaching Awards Competition
