News: Astronomy

The University of Texas at Austin will host the science-themed, STEAM-inspired festival from Feb. 21-March 6.

Many galaxies known as little red dots (LRDs) appear to harbor growing supermassive black holes.

The Dark for the Park Alliance released lighting guidelines for New Mexico’s oil and gas industry, which will benefit McDonald Observatory.

Northwestern researchers will develop and apply cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance the Giant Magellan Telescope’s capabilities.

The planet, named TIDYE-1b, is roughly the size of Jupiter and is an estimated 3 million years old.

The Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrograph (IGRINS) splits infrared light into more individual wavelengths than a traditional spectrograph.

The inaugural class of Cosmic Frontier Center postdoctoral fellows will study black holes in early galaxies and the formation of the first stars.

The milestone marks the start of a six-month optical testing phase at the University of Arizona.

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope spawned a new tension around when a major change in the universe happened.

Brendan Bowler was part of a team to help find the lowest-mass/closest-to-its-host-star distant planet ever found.