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(07/24/06) UMass Amherst Astronomers's Image Reveals a Rough and Crowded Galactic Neighborhood

(07/19/06) Arches, Quintuplet, and GC Star Clusters: Rough and Crowded Neighborhood at Galactic Center

(06/05/06) Andromeda Galaxy (M31): The Heat is on in Andromeda's Center

(06/05/06) Group Living Takes a Toll on Galaxies

(05/22/06) 2MASS Team Wins Award, Survey Provides Unprecedented View of Galaxies

(01/09/06) Model Created by UMass Amherst Astronomer Confirms a Warp in the Disk of the Milky Way

(06/01/05) SWAS Awakens for Comet Impact Study

(10/12/04) LMT to Shed Light on Cosmic Dark Ages

(08/13/04) Chandra Catches Early Phase of Cosmic Assembly

(01/17/04) Galactic Mergers and Acquisitions

(10/21/03) NSF Funds Online Program for Middle School Science Teachers

(09/25/03) UMass Astronomer on Team that Finds the Milky Way Consuming a Neighboring Galaxy

(03/26/03) Astronomical Archive Produced by 2Mass Telescope Project Now Available Online

(10/18/02) UMass Receives $10 Million for Mexico Telescope

(07/01/02) Chandra Discovers High-energy Activity Heating up the 'Whirlpool'

(06/25/02) Astronomers Find Energetic Ring Shows Way to Discovery of Pulsar Bulls-Eye

(06/04/02) UMass Astronomers Exploring How Exploded Stars Are Swept Back Into the Universe

(01/09/02) Team Led by UMass Astronomer Gets Sharpest-Ever Look at the Heart of the Milky Way

(01/08/02) Astronomers Find Evidence for Possible Galactic Fountain in NGC 4631

(01/08/02) Team Led by UMass Astronomer Explores How Galaxies Change in Varying Environments

(12/07/01) Seven New Faculty Join UMass Amherst in Range of Scientific Disciplines

(07/19/01) Chandra Detects Halo Of Hot Gas Around Milky Way-Like Galaxy

(06/06/01) Star Factory Near Galactic Center Bathed In High-Energy X-Rays

(06/05/01) New Map of the “Nearby” Universe Reveals Large-Scale Structure of Galaxies

(05/24/01) UMass Researchers to Build South Pole Receiver; Expected to Offer New Perspectives on Galactic Evolution

(02/21/01) Mission Accomplished By Twin-Telescope Sky Survey Led By UMass Amherst Astronomer

(12/19/00) Public, Press Invited to Witness Winter Solstice at UMass Amherst Sunwheel

(12/13/00) Six New Faculty Join College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

(11/02/00) Major Construction to Take Place Starting Nov. 6 on UMass Sunwheel

(08/16/00) Satellite Analyzes Cosmic Gas Clouds; UMass Amherst Researchers Find Puzzling Concentrations of Water

(07/14/00) "2MASS" Twin Telescopes Bring the Stars to Earth"

(06/06/00) Dwarf Galaxy Provides Clues About Early Universe, Says Team Led by UMass Amherst Astronomer

(03/15/00) Astronomer at UMass Amherst Receives $75,000 Grant to Expand Sunwheel

(10/13/99) Chemistry of Comet Hale-Bopp May Offer Clue About Early Solar System, UMass Amherst Astronomer Says

(06/10/98) Astronomers Look at Whether Comet Chemistry Can Reveal Clues About the Early Solar System

(03/24/98) Astronomers from UMass Amherst Find Rare, Interstellar Molecule

(11/20/97) UMass Amherst Astronomer Receives Start-Up Funding to Erect Sunwheel Project on Campus