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Jed McKinney and Cheng-Han Hsieh will pursue independent research in the formation of galaxies and solar systems.

Messier 82, 12 million light-years away, is relatively compact but hosts a frenzy of star formation activity.

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded Quang Tran, Ph.D. candidate in UT astronomy, one of its eight prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowships.

UT’s new Cosmic Frontier Center and McDonald Observatory will play key roles in aiding research into chemically young galaxies.

On Monday, April 8, parts of North America will experience a total solar eclipse and the UT observatory offers tips.

In honor of the impending total solar eclipse on April 8th, we present this special eclipse podcast.

GMT's consortium expands to 14 institutions with addition of Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Based on the most widely accepted cosmological model, they shouldn’t have been able to evolve until much later in the history of the Universe.

As the moon eclipses the sun during a solar eclipse the sunlight begins to dim and the LightSound device outputs a change in musical tone.

Astronomers with the COSMOS-Web collaboration have identified the object AzTECC71 as a dusty star-forming galaxy.