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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.”

Jarrod Bianco and Maile Marriott, two graduate students working with physicist Anna Tenerani, talk heliophysics.

Mark Raizen is part of a new effort focused on translating discoveries from the physics lab to the clinic.

Allan MacDonald of The University of Texas at Austin received the award for research with high-impact potential.

The caverns in Lead, South Dakota, will house the gigantic particle detectors of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.