News: Astronomy

UT is helping build the largest-ever ground-based telescope, with Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute.

The planet, known as GJ 3378b, orbits a small, cool star is 25 light-years from Earth and is in its star’s “habitable zone.”

U.S. News & World Report placed UT in the top 10 in the U.S. and top-tier worldwide in a variety of science subjects.

The largest survey ever of the early universe contains 600 million spectra, covering part of the sky equal to 2,000 full Moons.

Findings help explain how black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun formed so soon after the Big Bang.

Thanks to the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI), astronomy and AI are solving each other’s problems.

A UT Austin spectrograph measures for the first time the magnesium-to-silicon ratio of an "ultra-hot Jupiter."

Volker Bromm used TACC supercomputer simulations to shed light on the mysterious origins of these enigmatic cosmic objects.

Astronomers using data from the Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) based at UT made the discovery.

John Chisholm, Jonathan Perry and Ann Thijs were recognized for their commitment to curricular reform and educational innovation.