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UChicago astrophysicists test a new piece of the sky to probe dark matter and dark energy

Pioneering cosmologist honored for landmark measurements of the Hubble Constant

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws

The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics program connects students from Chicago Public Schools with UChicago astronomers and physicists

Professor Abgail Vieregg has been named a 2025 American Physical Society (APS) Fellow for "transformative contributions in the detection of ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmogenic neutrinos, and providing transformative mentorship to the next generation of leaders in the field."

Paolo Privitera and Michèle Lowrie to steward more opportunities for research and collaborations

“Quantum sound” will aid the searches for both nuclear weapons and dark matter

UChicago astrophysicists’ physics-based models suggest dark energy may be evolving

Since 1994, the Cottrell Scholar program has honored and helped to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their potential for academic leadership.

Professors Paolo Privitera (Astronomy & Astrophysics and KICP) and Andrew Cleland (PME) have received a 2025-2027 DARPA award to develop novel qubit-based detectors of low-energy neutrinos.  The UChicago-led consortium supported by the QuSeN (Quantum Sensing of Neutrinos) program includes Northwestern University, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of California San Diego and Fermilab.

UChicago scientists probe the nature of mysterious ‘hidden-sector’ dark matter in DAMIC-M experiment

The Teaching Prize is based on nominations from students who shared compelling evidence of honorees’ outstanding contributions to their education. 

Professor Wendy Freedman named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2025

The DAMIC-M experiment, led by Professor Paolo Privitera, has released new results on the search for dark matter particles with its prototype detector operating at the Modane Underground Laboratory in France. With an improvement of orders of magnitude in sensitivity with respect to any other detector technology, DAMIC-M new results exclude for the first time that dark matter may be primarily composed of hidden-sector particles with sub-GeV mass. The Chicago group played a  leading role in the detector design, underground installation and commissioning, and data analysis.

KICP is collaborating with Adler Planetarium, the SkAI Institute, and the Kavli Center for Ethics in Berkeley on a new Kavli Foundation funded project exploring ethics questions surrounding the use of AI in citizen science efforts, and in basic science research and communication more broadly.