Astronomers have found a group of stars overtaking the Sun in its orbit around the Milky Way Galaxy–evidence that our Galaxy’s spiral arms will disappear.
CHARIS, a powerful new instrument designed to search for Jupiter-like exoplanets, reached its critical “first-light” milestone in November 2016.
A Dunlap astrophysicist and an amateur astronomer have revealed surprising details about an unusual millisecond pulsar (MSP) binary system.
John Antoniadis, a Dunlap Fellow at the Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto, has been awarded a prestigious Polanyi Prize in Physics.
Australian government announces funding for CAASTRO-3D—an Australian-centred, international collaboration that includes the University of Toronto.
Two astronomers—with the help of Twitter—have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that an enormous X-shaped structure made of stars lies within the central bulge of the Milky Way Galaxy.
A team including astronomers from the University of Toronto has given us our clearest understanding yet of a class of exoplanets called “warm Jupiters”, showing that many have unexpected planetary companions.
University of Toronto officially joins international consortium operating the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope in Australia.
Applications now welcome for a tenure-stream faculty appointment in experimental astrophysics at the University of Toronto.
A team including astronomers from the U of T has discovered a new Fast Radio Burst that sheds new light on the nature of these strange cosmic events.
