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Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck Inspires Packed Audience at PKU with Talk on Stars, Planets and the Ingredients for Life

Mon, 2026-10-26  Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck, the transformational figure in astrochemistry in the past four decades, gave a public talk on star and planet formation at Peking University on October 8, 2026, hosted by the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and Departme

The International Workshop on Protoplanetary Disks and Exoplanets (PDEx2026) Held at Peking University

Tue, 2026-09-29  From September 20 to 22, 2026, the International Workshop on Protoplanetary Disks and Exoplanets (PDEx2026) was held at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA), Peking University, organized by Prof. Lile Wang. The workshop focused on simula

Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life in space

Mon, 2026-09-28  Date: Oct 8, 2026 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Sunshine Hall at Yingjie Exchange Center Speaker: Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden University) Title: Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life in space

Cosmic Filaments Reveal a Universal Internal Structure

Mon, 2026-09-28  On megaparsec scales, dark matter and galaxies are distributed throughout a vast and intricate network known as the cosmic web. Dense regions form nodes, while elongated filaments connect them across millions of lightyears. These filaments provide important ch

What Are The Other Groups Doing? — The 1st Peking University Graduate Forum on Astronomy and Astrophysics

Mon, 2026-09-28  They work on the same floor and share the same coffee machine, yet often can't say what the group next door actually studies. On 23 September 2026, the 1st Peking University Graduate Forum on Astronomy and Astrophysics was held in the auditorium of the Kavli I

Observations Reveal Little Red Dots as Growing Supermassive Black Holes

Fri, 2026-09-18  A team of astronomers led by Professor Linhua Jiang at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the School of Physics at Peking University has discovered two unusual little red dots that appear to be in transition toward typical active galactic n

A Realistic Pulsar-Supermassive Black Hole Timing Model

Tue, 2026-09-15  Pulsars are exceptionally stable cosmic clocks. If a pulsar can be found found orbiting a supermassive black hole, its precisely measured pulse arrival times can be used to probe the spacetime around the black hole and test gravity in the strong-field regime.

When Did the Milky Way's Last Major Merger Occur?

Fri, 2026-09-11  The Milky Way’s last major merger with a dwarf galaxy helped shape its early structure, but the timing of this last merger has remained uncertain. Using a new method based on the ages of ancient stars, astronomers have dated this event to about 10.1 billion y

2026 CSST Galaxy and AGN Summer Forum Held at KIAA

Thu, 2026-09-03  The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University hosted the 2026 Chinese Space-station Survey Telescope (CSST) Galaxy and Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) Forum on 1st – 2nd October 2026. More than 60 experts, scholars and students

Mini-workshop on Scalar Field in Astrophysics held in PKU-KIAA

Wed, 2026-09-02  A Mini-workshop on Scalar Fields in Astrophysics was held at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University (PKU-KIAA) on September 1, 2026. The workshop brought together researchers from Peking University and several other institution
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