News Releases

2024

20 November 2024

Astronomers Discover Youngest Transiting Planet Ever

18 November 2024

Pioneering Instrument Returns to McDonald Observatory

23 October 2024

Frontier Fellows Tackle Humanity’s Biggest Question: Where Do We Come From?

15 October 2024

Giant Magellan Telescope Begins Primary Mirror Support System Testing

10 October 2024

UT Astronomers Find JWST Data Conflicts with Reionization Models

09 October 2024

UT Astronomers Race To Capture Image of Exoplanet Near Star

30 September 2024

Giant Magellan Telescope Launches Program to Enhance Accessibility in Astronomy Education

18 September 2024

New AI Institute Led by UT Researchers Will Accelerate Cosmic Discovery

13 September 2024

Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Cosmology’s Two Biggest Puzzles

26 August 2024

Early Galaxies Weren't Too Big for Their Britches After All

25 August 2024

Observatory Remembers Harlan J. Smith on His 100th Birthday

22 August 2024

Board of Visitors 2025 Summer Meeting Takes Place July 26-27

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

Distance to the Cygnus Loop Comes Into Clearer Focus

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

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