News Releases

2026

06 March 2026

A Night at the Telescope

03 March 2026

A Sea of Light: HETDEX Astronomers Reveal Hidden Structures in the Young Universe

13 January 2026

UT Astronomer Appointed President of Organization Building World’s Most Powerful Telescope

2025

12 November 2025

Unique Shape of Star’s Explosion Revealed Just a Day After Detection

04 November 2025

Taft Armandroff Elected to Chair Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors

27 October 2025

Tiny Galaxy, Big Find: Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Segue 1

16 October 2025

Born Together: A New Look at Binary Stars

02 October 2025

Local Properties Keep Our Stars Bright with Night Sky Friendly Lighting

02 October 2025

A Cosmic Puzzle: Phosphine Found in One Brown Dwarf, Missing in Others

30 September 2025

UT Austin Welcomes MIT to Giant Magellan Telescope International Consortium

28 August 2025

Astronomers Investigate Complex Heart of a Cosmic Butterfly

26 August 2025

Board of Visitors Summer Meeting Showcases Breakthroughs in Cosmic Discovery

07 August 2025

The Universe’s Secret Harvest: UT Astronomers Shed Light on “the Cosmic Grapes”

06 August 2025

Meet the Universe’s Earliest Confirmed Black Hole: A Monster at the Dawn of Time

06 August 2025

Some Young Suns Align with Their Planet-forming Disks, Others Are Born Tilted

21 July 2025

Stowaway Bat Returns Home Friday, July 25

13 June 2025

Giant Magellan Telescope Advances to National Science Foundation Final Design Phase

06 June 2025

COSMOS-Web Releases Deepest Yet View Into the Universe

20 May 2025

UT’s Cosmic Frontier Center Welcomes New Class of Fellows

28 April 2025

Vast Molecular Cloud Discovered Near Our Solar System

15 April 2025

John Good Recognized with UT Outstanding Staff Award

07 April 2025

JWST Awards UT Astronomers 10% of Its Coveted Observing Time

04 April 2025

AAS Names Steven Finkelstein as Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer for 246th Meeting

10 March 2025

Board of Visitors Winter Meeting Shares Astronomy Highlights

10 March 2025

UT Astronomer Finds Smallest Brown Dwarfs Yet

20 February 2025

UT Austin Astronomer Wins Scialog: Early Science with the LSST Award

14 January 2025

Newfound Galaxy Class May Indicate Early Black Hole Growth

08 January 2025

New Energy Industry Guidelines Help Protect Night Sky

2024

13 December 2024

Northwestern University Joins Giant Magellan Telescope International Consortium

20 November 2024

Astronomers Discover Youngest Transiting Planet Ever

18 November 2024

Pioneering Instrument Returns to McDonald Observatory

23 October 2024

Frontier Fellows Tackle Humanity’s Biggest Question: Where Do We Come From?

15 October 2024

Giant Magellan Telescope Begins Primary Mirror Support System Testing

10 October 2024

UT Astronomers Find JWST Data Conflicts with Reionization Models

09 October 2024

UT Astronomers Race To Capture Image of Exoplanet Near Star

30 September 2024

Giant Magellan Telescope Launches Program to Enhance Accessibility in Astronomy Education

18 September 2024

New AI Institute Led by UT Researchers Will Accelerate Cosmic Discovery

13 September 2024

Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Cosmology’s Two Biggest Puzzles

26 August 2024

Early Galaxies Weren't Too Big for Their Britches After All

25 August 2024

Observatory Remembers Harlan J. Smith on His 100th Birthday

22 August 2024

Board of Visitors 2024 Summer Meeting Takes Place July 26-27

14 August 2024

McDonald Observatory Welcomes New Assistant Director for Research Support

31 July 2024

Astronomers Use AI to Find Elusive Stars 'Gobbling Up' Planets

24 July 2024

Astronomers Image Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away

19 July 2024

Distance to the Cygnus Loop Comes Into Clearer Focus

02 July 2024

Bass Foundation Gift Strengthens Outreach at McDonald Observatory

13 June 2024

Giant Magellan Telescope Enclosure Ready for Construction

23 May 2024

Galaxies Actively Forming in Early Universe Caught Feeding on Cold Gas

16 May 2024

Winter Board of Visitors Meeting Explores Artificial Intelligence

07 May 2024

How We Celebrated the April Eclipse

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