While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area in Texas has ...

Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...

UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan ...

According to McDonald Observatory Director Taft Armandroff, the Hobby-Eberly telescope is one of the largest in the world. Images in the exhibit compare it to the dome of the Texas capitol, ...

Apr. 29—Join McDonald Observatory May 7-11 for Dark Sky Week, a celebration of the famous night skies of Far West Texas. Event programming includes special access tours of two of the observatory ...

This episode of the KERA video series "The Shape of Texas" explores the architecture of the McDonald Observatory, where scientists study the stars - and you can too. The observatory's first ...

FORT DAVIS, Texas — The McDonald Observatory is a staple of West Texas history and identity, located almost 7,000 feet up in the Davis Mountains. The main telescope, the Hobby-Eberly, is one of ...

According to McDonald Observatory Director Taft Armandroff, the Hobby-Eberly telescope is one of the largest in the world. Images in the exhibit compare it to the dome of the Texas capitol ...

The McDonald Geodetic Observatory, a radio telescope, points into the night sky after the end of a star party at McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis on May 27.

UNITED STATES – AUGUST 29: McDonald Observatory, operated by the University of Texas at Austin, and located in Fort Davis, Texas (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images) ...