Cecilia Payne deduced that the sun is mainly made of hydrogen - but was encouraged to downplay her findings by her PhD supervisor. Mike Sutton takes up the story ...

Study opens new possibilities for progress in astrophysics and quantum technology. In a study that closes a long-standing gap ...

Disciplines: Radio Astronomy, Astrochemistry Degree/Major: PhD in Physics ...

The largest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) ever found in space, cyanocoronene, has been identified by a group of chemists and astronomers, marking a significant advancement in the area of ...

During this cyclic interaction between the stars and the interstellar medium in galaxies, an in-depth understanding of chemical evolution is the heart of astrochemistry. The molecular chemical ...

Whether you’re curious about the emergence of (the seeds of) life or how chemistry can advance the modern world, astrochemistry is an out-of-this-world way to think about fundamental chemical ...

OFFICE HOURS: Olivia Harper Wilkins ’15, Assistant Professor of Chemistry. by Tony Moore. Assistant Professor of Chemistry Olivia Harper Wilkins ’15 earned her Ph.D. at Caltech after completing her ...

Born in the late 1930s with the development of spectroscopy and radio astronomy, astrochemistry, a field at the intersection of astrophysics and chemistry, is now mature. New means for observing the s ...

11.55 Jonathan Hare, “Carbon Astrochemistry and the Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene” 12.25 Lunch (not provided for audience) Session Two (chair: Jeremy Shears) 1.45 John Black, “Alexander Dalgarno ...

Astrochemistry marks a new thrust for Weichman’s lab, but it dovetails nicely with her group’s existing expertise in developing new tools for spectroscopy that explore what molecules are doing quantum ...