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In a preprint publication, John Chisholm and colleagues find that LRDs may be an early form of global cluster.

The planet, known as GJ 3378b, orbits a small, cool star is 25 light-years from Earth and is in its star’s “habitable zone.”

The largest survey ever of the early universe contains 600 million spectra, covering part of the sky equal to 2,000 full Moons.

Findings help explain how black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun formed so soon after the Big Bang.

A UT Austin spectrograph measures for the first time the magnesium-to-silicon ratio of an "ultra-hot Jupiter."

Volker Bromm used TACC supercomputer simulations to shed light on the mysterious origins of these enigmatic cosmic objects.

Astronomers using data from the Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) based at UT made the discovery.

Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment researchers have made a record-setting 3D map of the early universe.

Using the polarization of light, researchers revealed information about the geometry of the explosion that other types of observation cannot provide.

Students discovered a surprise in the heart of a nearby dwarf galaxy.