Home > Research > Overview

Overview

Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago covers a broad range of topics, including the Sun and solar-like stars, cosmic rays, the chemical origin of meteorites and comets, interstellar matter, the birth of stars, the catastrophic death of massive stars and nucleosynthesis, high energy and relativistic astrophysics, the origins and dynamics of galaxies, and cosmology. Our faculty and staff engage in cutting-age, forefront research projects in theoretical, experimental, and observational programs to understand the origin of the universe and the formation of structures on all scales.

The current major projects and research initiatives include

• Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
• ASC FLASH Center
• Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP)
• Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory
• Dark Energy Survey (DES)
• Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA)
• Sunyaev-Zeldovich Array (SZA)
• The South Pole Telescope (SPT)
• VERITAS Gamma Ray Observatory

and others. The Department maintains close research ties and partnership with the Argonne National Laboratory, Fermilab, and Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum.

Detailed information is also available on the webpages of individual scientists. A list of publications from members of the department is available here.

Department Research Fields

	Cosmology
	Extragalactic Astronomy
	Galactic Astronomy
	Solar System Astronomy
	High Energy Astrophysics
	Computational Astrophysics
	Astronomy History and Philosophy