CHARIS, a powerful new instrument designed to search for Jupiter-like exoplanets, reached its critical “first-light” milestone in November 2016.
New Planet-hunting Instrument Joins the Search for Super-Jupiters Read More »
A Dunlap astrophysicist and an amateur astronomer have revealed surprising details about an unusual millisecond pulsar (MSP) binary system.
Amateur Astronomer Helps Uncover Secrets of Unique Pulsar Binary System Read More »
John Antoniadis, a Dunlap Fellow at the Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto, has been awarded a prestigious Polanyi Prize in Physics.
Dunlap Fellow Dr. John Antoniadis Awarded Prestigious 2016 Polanyi Prize in Physics Read More »
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.
X Marks the Spot at the Centre of the Milky Way Galaxy Read More »
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.
Warm Jupiters Not As Lonely As Expected Read More »
University of Toronto officially joins international consortium operating the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope in Australia.
University of Toronto Joins Murchison Widefield Array Consortium Read More »
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.
New Clues in the Fast Radio Burst Mystery Read More »
Prof. Roberto Abraham of the University of Toronto was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in an official ceremony on Friday, November 27th.
U of T\’s Abraham becomes new Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Read More »
