News Releases

2024

14 August 2024

McDonald Observatory Welcomes New Assistant Director for Research Support

31 July 2024

Astronomers Use AI to Find Elusive Stars 'Gobbling Up' Planets

24 July 2024

Astronomers Image Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away

19 July 2024

Astronomers Better Identify Distance to the Cygnus Loop

02 July 2024

Bass Foundation Gift Strengthens Outreach at McDonald Observatory

13 June 2024

Giant Magellan Telescope Enclosure Ready for Construction

23 May 2024

Galaxies Actively Forming in Early Universe Caught Feeding on Cold Gas

16 May 2024

Winter Board of Visitors Meeting Explores Artificial Intelligence

07 May 2024

How We Celebrated the April Eclipse

17 April 2024

Astronomers Uncover Methane Emission on a Cold Brown Dwarf

03 April 2024

NASA Awards Fellowships to Two UT Austin Postdocs

03 April 2024

UT Astronomers Use JWST to Probe an Extreme Starburst Galaxy

28 March 2024

UT Astronomy Graduate Student Receives Fellowship to Study Exoplanets

27 March 2024

UT Researcher Leading Project for NASA New Space Telescope

25 March 2024

April 8 Partial Eclipse at McDonald Observatory

04 March 2024

National Science Board Announces Federal Investment Recommendation

20 February 2024

Giant Magellan Telescope Expands Global Science Impact with Taiwanese Partner

09 February 2024

Discovery of Unexpected Ultra-Massive Galaxies May Not Rewrite Cosmology, But Still Leaves Questions

30 January 2024

LightSound Workshops Make April’s Eclipse More Accessible to Visually Impaired

16 January 2024

2024 Summer Internship Applications Due 2/15

2023

04 December 2023

Ghostlike Dusty Galaxy Reappears in James Webb Space Telescope Image

30 November 2023

Discovery of Planet Too Big for Its Sun Throws Off Models of Solar System Formation

20 November 2023

Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Night of December 13/14

15 November 2023

Teacher Workshops at McDonald Observatory

25 October 2023

McDonald Observatory Celebrates October Solar Eclipse

24 October 2023

Permian Basin Area Foundation Supports McDonald Observatory Exhibit Renovations

26 September 2023

The Giant Magellan Telescope’s Final Mirror Fabrication Begins

11 September 2023

Department of Energy Awards Wootton Center Grant for Research and Education

30 August 2023

Observatory Celebrates Board of Visitors at Summer Meeting

29 August 2023

McDonald Observatory Invites Ecological Research as a Texas Field Station

15 August 2023

West Texas Businesses Preserve Night Sky – One Light Bulb at a Time

14 August 2023

Astronomers Confirm Maisie’s Galaxy is Among Earliest Ever Observed

03 August 2023

Mapping Everything Everywhere All At Once

19 July 2023

JWST Awards 148 Hours Observing Time to University of Texas Astronomer

13 July 2023

Chemical Cartography Reveals the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms

06 July 2023

Webb Telescope Detects Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole

22 June 2023

New Era of Exoplanet Discovery Begins with Images of ‘Jupiter’s Younger Sibling’

19 June 2023

Searching for an Atmosphere on the Rocky Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c

07 June 2023

Astronomers Observe Giant Tails of Helium Escaping Jupiter-Like Planet

25 May 2023

McDonald Observatory Dedicates David G. Booth Director’s House

23 May 2023

Searching for Supernovae in HETDEX Data

17 April 2023

Two Eclipses Across Texas Bring Science Exploration to Our Backyard

13 April 2023

James Webb Space Telescope Images Challenge Theories of How Universe Evolved

07 April 2023

JWST First Stunning Image of Cassiopeia A, Fragments of a Hellish Explosion

06 April 2023

McDonald Observatory Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of Greater Big Bend International Dark Sky Reserve

09 March 2023

First Images from JWST’s Largest General Observer Program

09 February 2023

Hobby-Eberly Telescope Reveals Galaxy Gold Mine in First Large Survey

02 February 2023

Texas Science Festival Will Inspire Texans Through Scientific Discovery

07 January 2023

Cosmic Dawn III Recreates the Early Universe Epoch of Reionization in Unprecedented Detail

05 January 2023

JWST Reveals Milky Way-like Galaxies in Young Universe

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