Nicholas Suntzeff doubts the latest round of conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials. But he hasn’t given up on finding neighbors in the universe.
Get ready for astronomical magic, daytime darkness, and yes, probably a bit of traffic on April 8, 2024.
The small motel has a sliding-roof observatory where people can enjoy some of the darkest skies on the planet.
UT’s Caitlin Casey will use the Webb Telescope to peer nearly 14 billion years back in time.
The depth of darkness in the Hill Country.
San Antonio's Sandy Wood has been the voice of StarDate for twenty years.
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history as the first humans to set foot on the surface of the moon. Forty years later, the researchers, astronauts, engineers, scientists, and NASA officials who made the voyage possible remember the day the Eagle landed.
Karl Gebhardt and Gary Hill, two astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin, are racing to solve one of the greatest mysteries in science: What is dark energy? How does it work? Can it explain the origins of the universe? There’s only one problem. Dark energy may not actually
If you can’t get enough of creepy character actor Christopher Walken, boot up The Darkening, one of this year’s CD-ROM releases from Austin’s Origin Systems. Walken, like John Hurt and Amanda Pays, plays one of the fifty characters who meet up with the game’s hero, an amnesiac who roams the
Combining the latest technology with an old-fashioned passion for her work, Austin astronomer Anita Cochran redefined the solar system. Now her star is on the rise.
Star light, star bright, will the computer work tonight?
