Supermassive black holes/active galactic nuclei (SMBHs/AGN), forming only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang as observed with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), challenge theoretical u...

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The peak of the popular astronomical event aligns with a new moon, meaning skies will be darker and the meteors easier to see.

CosmicAI Researchers Sanjana Gautam , Houjiang Liu , and Matthew Lease - alongside Yujin Choi , set out to understand a question that's becoming urgent across every research discipline: when sci...

Residents fear that the Trump administration’s plans to build a border wall will threaten the region’s spectacular starry skies.

Astronomers using data from the Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have discovered tens of thousands of gigantic hydrogen gas halos, called “Lyman-alpha nebulae,” surrounding galax...

The college’s 2026 Visualizing Science competition finalists span a number of disciplines.

The Harlan J. Smith Scholars program takes undergraduate astronomy students out west to observe and capture data on one of the world’s largest telescopes.

New leadership appointed to guide the next phase of construction as Dr. Walter Massey concludes nearly a decade of service as chair of the GMTO Corporation Board of Directors

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars – too few to provide the gravity needed to keep itself from scattering into space. Like other dwarf galaxies, ...

Two Oden faculty, postdoctoral fellow Aleksey Generozov and professor Stella Offner, published a gro...

The Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to begin in August 2026. We welcome applicati...

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AUSTIN, Texas — An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most distant