NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos to test planetary defense. But weeks later, its orbit kept ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope received official approval on June 11 from the National Science Foundation to advance into its ...

Our off-the-beaten-path destination was Marathon, Texas, with a stop in Marfa to see the Prada installation — an art piece in ...

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

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

I came to McDonald Observatory as a kid when I was maybe seven or eight years old, and now I work here. Right. And that, that experience stayed with me my, my whole life.

The McDonald Observatory, which Hummel said has the darkest night skies of any major observatory in the United States, is now celebrating International Dark Sky Week, with several special events ...

When Smith joined the university in 1963 as director of the observatory and chairman of the department of astronomy, the observatory was in serious need of refurbishing and the department had only ...

McDonald Observatory relocates to Austin — at 7% the size by: Eric Henrikson Posted: Oct 2, 2024 / 05:00 AM CDT Updated: Oct 2, 2024 / 07:11 AM CDT ...

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 Texas Science and Natural History museum has opened a new exhibit, "Big Eye on Dark Skies," which features a scale model of the Hobby-Eberly telescope, one of the world's most powerful ...

"McDonald Observatory continues to grow in its capabilities and in its science," said director Dr. Taft Armandroff. "We are pleased and grateful to have another LCO 1-meter telescope studying our very ...