Recent research discoveries have been surprising to astrophysicists. We bring together UT astronomers and physicists to discuss some of the more controversial questions in space science and cosmology, ...

For centuries, cartographers have sought to map Earth’s land masses and seas to better understand the world and their place in it. Now, astrophysicists have taken a major step toward doing the same ...

Let’s say you have a baby. Maybe you really do, maybe you don’t. But Dan Scolnic, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, does have one, and perhaps that's why a hypothetical baby helps him ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

Dr. Frank is an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester. Dr. Gleiser is a theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College. Not long after the James Webb Space Telescope began beaming back from outer ...

Sometimes it seems like every year offers an occasion to celebrate some sort of Einstein anniversary. In 2015, everybody lauded the 100th anniversary of his general theory of relativity. Last year, ...

One of the basic assumptions of cosmology is that the Universe is basically the same everywhere. That is, our location in the cosmos isn't special, and if we happened to be located in another corner ...