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Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who discovered the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, share award with theoretical cosmologist James Peebles. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who discovered the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, share award with theoretical cosmologist James Peebles., Author(s): Elizabeth Gibney, Davide Castelvecchi Author Affiliations: Physics Nobel goes to exoplanet and cosmology pioneers Cosmologist James Peebles (left) and exoplanet astronomers Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor (right) share the [...]

Astrophysicist plans to spend prize money -- awarded 50 years after the discovery -- on increasing diversity in science.Astrophysicist plans to spend prize money -- awarded 50 years after the discovery -- on increasing diversity in science., Author(s): Zeeya MeraliAuthor Affiliations:Pulsar discoverer Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3-million Breakthrough Prize Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars as a PhD student. [see PDF for image]Credit: David Hartley/ShutterstockJocelyn Bell Burnell 'I [...]

The three Shaw prizes for 2012, worth US$1 million apiece, were announced on 29 May. David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jane Luu, at the Massachusetts [...]

One day after winning the Shaw prize (above), David Jewitt and Jane Luu learned that they had won a biennial Kavli astrophysics prize, together with Michael Brown of the California [...]

Alfred Nobel never set up a prize for astronomy, but he did leave astronomers a back door to Nobel glory: the Nobel Prize in physics. And this year, that door [...]