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 ...

McDonald Observatory, in West Texas, boasts an array of telescopes representing 80 years of progress in astronomy.

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

Light pollution is a constant threat to the astronomical research that goes on at the McDonald Observatory.

When McDonald Observatory was dedicated in May of 1939, astronomers were only just beginning to understand how stars shine — by "fusing" elements in their cores to make heavier ones.

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 ...

McDonald Observatory helps discover multi-planet system around a binary star. By KVIA ABC-7. Published March 1, 2014 4:51 PM ...

(light entertaining music) - [Instructor] McDonald Observatory sits perched 6,800 feet high atop the Davis Mountains of West Texas. On any clear night, as the sun sets, the massive steel and ...

A week after the Texas wildfires cut the power to the McDonald Observatory, the astronomy center is scheduled to open to the public tomorrow (April 20). Skip to main content.

Some were McDonald Observatory employees, retirees, or volunteers. Many took pride in being the closest neighbors of the world-class observatory and in helping keep conditions right for its work.