News: Astronomy

Astronomers on a historically ambitious and massive galaxy-mapping mission have activated more than 10,000 amateur scientists in 85 countries to help in their quest. Now...

Arianna Long of UT Austin has been recognized for her communication of research on the evolution of the universe.

A new report releases what the nation’s best degrees of the future are.

Two new images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies ever observed.

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will be the world's most powerful telescope, and UT Austin has determined it will work to invest an additional $45...

The discovery improves understanding of the process of how massive stars live and die.

The world’s largest International Dark Sky Reserve is coming to Texas and Mexico,.

Each year, the award is given to one or two international scholars under the age of 45.

UT Austin assistant professor of astronomy, Brendan Bowler, has been selected as a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics for his work related...

UT astronomers María José Bustamante, Eva Noyola, Karl Gebhardt and Greg Zeimann, with colleagues from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, made the discovery.