Wind the cosmic clock back a few billion years and our Solar System looked...
Deep Space
Academic astronomy and astrophysics
Explorers either have the benefit of having maps or the burden of creating them. ...
On Oct. 12th, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) arrived safely at Port de...
As we’re fond of saying here at UT, space exploration is hard. Many things...
When Carl Sagan said, “We are all made of star stuff,” he didn’t just...
Since the beginning of the Digital Age (ca. the 1970s), theoretical physicists have speculated...
Astronomers have known for years that galaxies are cannibalistic. Massive galaxies like our own...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is on its way. The spacecraft was launched into space on...
The energetic phenomena known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are one of the greatest...
Imagine a scenario where we detect an asteroid heading straight for Earth. Imagine that...
