The view from the remote, barren Andes Mountains in northern Chile stretches for miles, over waves of bare, dun-colored peaks rolling to each horizon. More importantly,...
Four hundred and fifty miles west of The University of Texas at Austin, thirty-seven miles (as the car drives) north of Marfa, and almost 6,800 feet above sea level...
The news about the existence of a possibly habitable earth-like planet blew up yesterday, after being announced at a NASA conference in Moffett Field, Calif. The...
It’s something straight out of a science-fiction movie: two monster black holes, weighing as much as 10 billion suns, that threaten to swallow everything within...
UT is often on the forefront of innovation in the astronomy field. But one project—the Giant Magellan Telescope—is changing not only the world, but also galaxies...
Don Olson’s office is tucked deep into a corner of the physics department at Texas State University. But don’t call him an astrophysicist.
“Celestial sleuth...
