News Releases

2015

27 January 2015

Astronomers Discover Ancient Solar System with Five Earth-sized Planets

26 January 2015

Black Hole Chokes on a Swallowed Star

05 January 2015

Craig Nance is New Superintendent of McDonald Observatory

2014

10 October 2014

McDonald Observatory Astronomers Advise National Research Council

03 September 2014

Eminent Engineer and Physicist Appointed to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Project

12 August 2014

Giant 1930s Telescope Model on View at McDonald Observatory

24 July 2014

São Paulo, Brazil to Join Giant Magellan Telescope Project

03 July 2014

Astronomers Disprove Claims that Two 'Goldilocks Planets' Might Support Life

24 June 2014

Giant Magellan Telescope Organization and McDonald Observatory Partner to Inspire the Next Generation of Astronomers

09 May 2014

Globular Clusters Rotate at Heart

08 May 2014

Astronomers Find Sun’s ‘Long-Lost Brother,’ Pave Way for Family Reunion

28 April 2014

Winners of McDonald Observatory’s 75th Anniversary Art Contest Announced

07 April 2014

Texas, California Astronomers Release New Game 'Super Planet Crash'

07 March 2014

Texas Regents Authorize $50 Million for UT Austin Share in Giant Magellan Telescope

19 February 2014

Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Enter Construction Phase, Texas Astronomy Program Announces

14 January 2014

Leading Astronomer Taft Armandroff Appointed New Director of McDonald Observatory

2013

04 December 2013

Giant Magellan Telescope’s Third Mirror Unveiled

23 October 2013

Texas Astronomer Discovers Most Distant Known Galaxy

17 October 2013

Sky Survey Captures Key Details of Cosmic Explosions

08 October 2013

McDonald Observatory Celebrates 75 Years of Discovery

10 September 2013

Texas Astronomers Unravel 20-Year Dark Matter Mystery with New Computer Models

02 September 2013

Texas Astronomers Use ALMA to Reveal Luminous Starbirth in the Milky Way

22 August 2013

Don Winget Receives Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award

30 July 2013

Alan Y. Chow Telescope Dedicated at McDonald Observatory's Frank N. Bash Visitors Center

17 July 2013

Northrop Grumman to Sponsor StarDate

02 July 2013

Mary Kay Hemenway Receives National Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Understanding of Astronomy

19 June 2013

Texas Astronomers Discover Pulsations in Crystalized, Dying Star

30 May 2013

Science and Music Under the Stars Saturday in Marfa

09 May 2013

Paul Shapiro Elected to Chair the American Physical Society Division of Astrophysics

23 April 2013

Texas House, Senate Honor McDonald Observatory for 75 Years of Excellence

23 January 2013

Sally Dodson-Robinson Wins Annie Jump Cannon Award

07 January 2013

Exocomets May be as Common as Exoplanets

2012

29 November 2012

Neal Evans Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

28 November 2012

Texas Astronomers Measure Most Massive, Most Unusual Black Hole Using Hobby-Eberly Telescope

25 October 2012

The White Widow Model: A New Scenario for the Birth of Type Ia Supernovae

23 October 2012

World's Most Advanced Mirror for Giant Telescope Completed

18 October 2012

Orionid Meteor Shower to Peak Oct. 20-21

09 October 2012

CANDELS team discovers dusty galaxies at ancient epoch with Hubble Space Telescope; tracks build-up of star- and planet-forming material

11 September 2012

Astronomers measure largest-ever magnetic field around massive star, time its slow rotation as it drags around giant cloak of trapped particles

29 August 2012

NASA, Texas astronomers find first multi-planet system around a binary star

28 August 2012

Astronomers Test Einstein in a New Regime Using Pair of Burnt-Out Stars

28 June 2012

Eiichiro Komatsu shares $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize with WMAP satellite team, for fundamental discoveries on the age, make-up, shape, and origin of the universe

19 June 2012

High School Students Explore Astronomical Research, Social Media at McDonald Observatory

31 May 2012

Astronomers Probe 'Evaporating' Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope

03 May 2012

Miller Wins $20K Grand Prize for Undergraduate Research from University Co-Op

23 April 2012

University of Texas at Austin names McDonald Observatory science instrument for philanthropists George and Cynthia Mitchell

09 April 2012

Las Cumbres Telescope Sees First Light at McDonald Observatory

23 March 2012

Mountaintop Blast for Giant Magellan Telescope; Video Available

12 January 2012

Karl Gebhardt Honored by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas

10 January 2012

Hubble Study Challenges 'Cosmic Fireworks' as Largest Driver of Galaxy Evolution

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