News: Astronomy

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

Universo Expansivo, a program of the Giant Magellan Telescope, will increase accessibility for students with vision loss through tactile astronomy kits and lesson plans.

Stella Offner and Arya Farahi are among the leads of a new multi-institution institute focused on AI and astronomy.

Michael Boylan-Kolchin and others show “early dark energy” might help solve the Hubble Tension and explain why there are more early galaxies than expected.

Spots that are a part of The University of Texas at Austin can serve purposes for both science learning and community R&R.

It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries.

Smith was director of McDonald Observatory from 1963 to 1989 and supported the launch of the StarDate radio program.

B-G Andersson is McDonald Observatory's new assistant director for research support.

The work reveals what planets outside our solar system are made of.

Knowing how far away this supernova remnant is will help answer fundamental questions about what happens when stars explode.