AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new exhibit at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum is bringing the McDonald Observatory to the University of Texas campus. The “Big Eye on Dark Skies” exhibit opened this ...

DAVIS MOUNTAINS STATE PARK, Texas — It's a packed night at McDonald Observatory, where dozens of people are crowding around high-powered telescopes as a thunderstorm rolls off to the east. Locals and ...

SAN ANTONIO -- The growing oil and gas industry has been great for West Texas, but the growth has brought with it increased light pollution, especially at the McDonald Observatory, located within the ...

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope, background left, looks over a fully-steerable 12-meter wide radio telescope that is used to study Geodesy at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory Tuesday, June 15, ...

Join McDonald Observatory for a virtual discussion about eclipses, what causes them, how to safely view them and watch the peak of the eclipse from three locations in Texas: McDonald Observatory, Lake ...

Apr. 18—FORT DAVIS — The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory will hold its first Dark Skies Festival April 29 and April 30, a press release detailed. The festival will include daytime ...

Blackshear Elementary fourth grade science and social studies teacher Ashley Redman poses with a large check for her Education Foundation grant titled Igniting Young Minds through Space Exploration.

Artist’s conception of the planet and its view of the two stars that make up the Gamma Cephei system. The planet orbits the bright yellow star on the right every 2.5 years. [larger view] (Credit: Tim ...

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's ...