News Releases

2018

09 July 2018

McDonald Observatory, Oil and Gas Organizations Collaborate to Protect Night Skies

31 May 2018

Texas Researchers Announce Gravitational Wave Event Likely Signaled Creation of a Black Hole

19 April 2018

Creating Star Stuff on Earth is the Aim of New $7 Million Project

08 March 2018

McDonald Observatory to Train National Park Service in Skywatching Programs for Visitors

31 January 2018

Two Postdocs Receive Fellowships to Study Extrasolar Planets

10 January 2018

Texas’ Caitlin Casey Receives 2018 Pierce Prize from American Astronomical Society

2017

14 December 2017

Discovery of New Planet Reveals Distant Solar System to Rival Our Own

07 December 2017

GMT Mount Stage 1 Contracts Awarded

06 December 2017

Massive Primordial Galaxies Found Swimming in Vast Ocean of Dark Matter

04 December 2017

A New Spin to Solving Mystery of Stellar Companions

29 November 2017

Arizona State University Joins the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization

27 November 2017

Texas Astronomers Will Lead Early Studies with $8 Billion James Webb Space Telescope

16 November 2017

Next Generation Astronomical Survey to Map the Entire Sky

10 November 2017

Hubble Spots Expanding Light Echo Around a Supernova

03 November 2017

UT Austin and Partners Cast Fifth Massive Mirror for Giant Magellan Telescope

26 October 2017

Astronomers Detect Comets Outside our Solar System

28 September 2017

Astronomers Solve Mystery of Formation of First Supermassive Black Holes

26 September 2017

New Telescope Coming Soon to McDonald Observatory

10 July 2017

Heart of an Exploded Star Observed in 3-D

06 July 2017

Hubble Space Telescope Pushed Beyond Limits to Spot Clumps of New Stars in Distant Galaxy

05 June 2017

Astronomers Prove What Separates True Stars from Wannabes

30 May 2017

Do Stars Fall Quietly into Black Holes, or Crash into Something Utterly Unknown?

09 April 2017

Upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope dedicated April 9; Dark energy survey, other cutting-edge science on the way

08 February 2017

Astronomers Find Faintest Early Galaxies Yet, Probe How the Early Universe Lit Up

24 January 2017

Robert N. Shelton Selected as President of Giant Magellan Telescope Organization

2016

19 December 2016

Famous Red Star Betelgeuse is Spinning Faster than Expected; May Have Swallowed a Companion 100,000 Years Ago

16 November 2016

Walter E. Massey and Taft Armandroff Selected to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors

24 August 2016

Astronomers Discover Rocky Planet Orbiting Nearest Star, Proxima Centauri

06 July 2016

A New Kind of Black Hole, Once a Theory, Now Firmly within Observers’ Sight

20 June 2016

Texas Astronomer Finds Young 'Super-Neptune,' New Planet Offers Clues to the Origin of Close-in Exoplanets

25 May 2016

Supermassive Black Holes Cause Galactic Warming

06 April 2016

Brendan Bowler Wins Hubble Fellowship

22 March 2016

First Discovery of a Binary Companion for a Type Ia Supernova

11 March 2016

CosmoQuest Partners, Including McDonald Observatory, Share $11.5 Million to Expand Astronomy Outreach Programs

24 February 2016

Newly Discovered Planet in the Hyades Cluster Could Shed Light on Planetary Evolution

2015

09 December 2015

High School Student Helps Discover New Planet, Calculates Frequency of Jupiter-like Planets

07 December 2015

Texas Astronomer Solves Mystery of 'Born Again' Stars with Hubble Space Telescope

19 November 2015

Early Galaxies More Efficient at Making Stars, Hubble Survey Reveals

11 November 2015

Giant Magellan Telescope, World’s Largest, Breaks Ground in Chilean Desert

02 November 2015

Upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope Sees First Light

26 August 2015

Dying Stars Suffer from 'Irregular Heartbeats'

23 July 2015

Texas Astronomers Help Find Earth’s Older, Bigger Cousin

03 June 2015

University of Texas at Austin, International Partners Approve Start of Construction for Giant Magellan Telescope

09 April 2015

McDonald Observatory’s Andrew Mann Wins Prestigious Hubble Fellowship

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

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