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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 million in the effort.

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 to the formation, evolution, architectures and atmospheres of extrasolar planets.

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.

Galaxies pollute the environment they exist in, researchers have found.

Zoe de Beurs wasn't sure what she wanted to do when she first arrived at UT Austin, but after graduating, she started a Ph.D. in Planetary Science at MIT.

An international team that included Michael Endl and Bill Cochran discovered what was thought to an exoplanet was not one.

The Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers including Brendan Bowler from The University of Texas at Austin to get a rare look at a young, Jupiter-sized planet that is growing by feeding off material surrounding a young star 370 light-years from Earth.