News: Astronomy

Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin

Announcements

CNS Welcomes New Faculty As Fall Semester Begins

Seal of the University of Texas at Austin with a burnt orange filter on the image

Features

Visualizing Science 2017: Finding the Hidden Beauty in College Research

Five years ago the College of Natural Sciences began an annual tradition called Visualizing Science with the intent of finding the inherent beauty hidden within...

This image shows the turbulent gas structures in a three-dimensional, multi-physics supercomputer simulation during the formation of such massive clusters, with the red-to-violet rainbow spectrum representing gas at high-to-low densities.

Podcast

Eyewitness to a Cosmic Car Wreck

What is the sound of two neutron stars colliding over 1 billion light years away?

Illustration of large explosion in space

Research

How UT Scientists Contributed to Nobel-Winning Gravitational Wave Discovery

No scientific discovery happens in isolation. See how UT Austin scientists and alumni are changing the world.

Diagram showing how different scientists relate to each other

Accolades

Three Alumni to be Inducted into Hall of Honor

Hall of Honor Awards

Features

Meet Six Incredible Women from UT Austin Science History

From the first woman mathematician inducted into the National Academy of Science to an astronomer who helped us understand how galaxies evolve, the women of...

Illustration of the six women in the article by Jenna Luecke.

Features

Visualizing Science 2016: Beautiful Images From Researchers in CNS

As part of an ongoing tradition, this past spring we invited faculty, staff and students in the College of Natural Sciences community to send us...

A simulation of subsurface waves crashing.

Podcast

The Last First Planetary Mission

University of Texas at Austin alumnus Alan Stern describes the challenges, and the joys, of the last first mission to a planet.

Artist's illustration of a spacecraft flying past a planet

Features

The Unexpected Journey of a Veteran Student and Astronomer

The educational journey of one exceptional student has taken her from translating Arabic in the Air Force to learning the secrets of the stars.

Rebecca Larson