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There’s a big debate in cosmology about how fast the universe is currently expanding.

Early career researchers from the Department of Physics were selected for highly competitive Department of Defense awards.

Meet the graduating seniors being recognized for excellence in research, academics and improving the community.

Jaquelin Dudley, Kristen Grauman, Arlen Johnson, Daniel Leahy, Xiaoqin “Elaine” Li and Tanya Paull receive major honor from AAAS.

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology.

High in a Chilean desert, scientists at the Simons Observatory probe the cosmic microwave background for clues about the history of the early universe.

Elaine Li and Xiuling Li will co-direct the new Texas Quantum Institute.

Astrophysicists and astronomers at UT Austin have used these rare phenomena to help answer fundamental questions about our universe.

Ph.D. student Maile Marriott’s submission illustrates the complexities of the “space weather” generated by our sun.

Graduate students Jessica Valdes and Keenan Riordan were on a team that found humans may have dispersed during arid times along “blue highways.”