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Michael Boylan-Kolchin says, “Even if you took everything that was available to form stars and snapped your fingers instantaneously, you still wouldn't be able to...

Michael Boylan-Kolchin of UT Austin describes surprising galaxies detected with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Steven Weinberg aimed to distill the rules of physics down to their simplest, most beautiful essence.

Gravitational wave astronomy started with a bang back in 2015, and 90 such events have swelled into a cosmic chorus since then.

Steven Weinberg was best known for his Nobel-prize winning work that unified two fundamental forces of nature — electromagnetism and the weak force.

A couple who joined the Department of Physics in 2020, Pablo Laguna and Deirdre Shoemaker, study violent events in the universe, like when cosmic heavyweights collide.

A group of astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin has found that a telescope idea shelved by NASA a decade ago can solve a problem that no other telescope can.

Several College of Natural Sciences faculty members have been newly appointed to special professorships and endowed chairs at The University of Texas at Austin.

Katherine Freese, director of the Weinberg Institute, is among the researchers cited.

Astrophysicist Katherine Freese, astronomer John Kormendy and evolutionary biologist Mark Kirkpatrick of The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.