News

A team of astrophysicists has found evidence for gravitational waves that oscillate with periods of years to decades.

One way around that tension is to accept a different age for the universe, says cosmologist and study coauthor Mike Boylan-Kolchin of the University of...

Physics graduate student Gabriele Montefalcone received the 2023 Weinberg Institute/TCCAP Graduate Fellowship.

Not enough time had elapsed to have brought together that amount of matter and turned it into this many stars. At the time, Mike Boylan-Kolchin...

The fourth observing run of the global gravitational wave network begins. UT Austin hosts a large LIGO group: Professors Chen, Laguna, Shoemaker, and Zimmerman

Mike Boylan-Kolchin, an astronomer from the University of Texas at Austin, says that scientists now think we're seeing galaxies from as early as 13.48 billion...

Hefty young galaxies defy the reigning model of cosmology, called "dark energy + cold dark matter" or ΛCDM.

The James Webb Space Telescope is discovering distant clusters of stars that formed surprisingly early—presenting new mysteries about how the universe evolved.

Scientists create the most detailed and accurate simulation ever produced of the first billion years of the universe.

The inaugural TACOS event was organized by The University of Texas at Austin's Kimberly Boddy & held at Southern Methodist University.