SDSU’s Department of Astronomy is incredibly fortunate to have recently received a generous donation of $14 million from the estate of Theodore William and Nhung […]
The Department congratulates Yasmin Afshar, Kiley Mayford, Kelcey Davis, Kara Whitaker, and Jose Ruiz Casias on their recently-rewarded Cal-Bridge scholarships to support them as they […]
SDSU Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system’s title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data […]
In September 2018, SDSU astronomy graduate student Quentin Socia published a new work refuting the previously published prediction of the merger of two stars. Stellar […]
On June 7, 2017, Professor Doug Leonard delivered an invited plenary talk on the explosion geometry of core-collapse supernovae at the 230th meeting of the […]
The Astronomy Department is pleased to welcome our latest faculty hire, professor Kate Rubin, who joined our Department this fall. Kate has an expertise in […]
Kepler-1647 b is important because it is the tip of the iceberg of a theoretically predicted population of large, long-period circumbinary planets.
The advanced LIGO experiment has just announced the Discovery of Gravitational Waves produced by the merging of two stellar mass black holes in a distant galaxy.
A team of astronomers, including two from San Diego State University, today announced the discovery of a five-planet system with two super-Earth-sized planets in the […]
Astronomers at the 29th International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii will announce on August 14 the discovery of a new transiting “circumbinary” planet, […]
