UT Austin will become the first university hub to work with U.S. Space Force, integrating research, industry, and high-powered computing to rapidly identify and respond to threats in orbit.

Learn how oxygen’s early rise could have given complex life the energy boost it needed to evolve.

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when much of campus had fallen quiet, a small team of UT researchers began looking for viral clues in an unlikely place: the dust collecting deep inside a dorm’s air-handling units. With permission from the University, they vacuumed dust from the hidden…

For the first time, a Texas-based project has been selected for Monument Lab's Re:Generation initiative, bringing the stories, struggles and visions of the Las Milpas neighborhood in Pharr, Texas onto the national stage. This recognition builds on years of community-led advocacy supported by Planet…

As one of only 15 NIA-funded Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging in the United States, the renewal solidifies UT’s role as a national leader in aging and population health research.

Scientists are using radar to study damaged ice both in Antarctica and, with the help of a NASA spacecraft, on Jupiter’s ocean moon of Europa.

The University of Texas at Austin was the top recipient of National Science Foundation grants in fiscal year 2024 – a sign of UT's leadership in AI & computing.

Good Systems has announced the recipients of its internal funding competition, awarding seed funding to interdisciplinary faculty teams whose projects explore how artificial intelligence can be designed in ways that better reflect human values and societal needs.

Milit Patel co-led groundbreaking research that used machine learning to identify factors across 185 countries that are most strongly associated with improved cancer outcomes worldwide, publishing the findings in Annals of Oncology.

The Giant Magellan Telescope consortium today announced it has appointed The University of Texas at Austin’s Daniel T. Jaffe as president. He is one of two UT astronomers recently named to key leadership positions.