News Releases

2020

28 July 2020

Studying Radioactive Aluminum in Solar Systems Unlocks Formation Secrets

09 July 2020

The Universe Doesn’t Stop for the Pandemic

22 June 2020

Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds

02 June 2020

New Tricks from Old Data: Texas Astronomer Uses 25-year-old Hubble Data to Confirm Planet Proxima Centauri c

29 May 2020

University Welcomes New Center for Planetary Systems Habitability

04 May 2020

McDonald Observatory Remains Closed to the Public

15 April 2020

Texas-Led Team Finds Earth-Sized, Habitable Zone Planet Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data

13 April 2020

Continued Closure of McDonald Observatory

06 April 2020

A Message from the Director

13 March 2020

McDonald Observatory to Close to Visitors

12 March 2020

McDonald Observatory Hires Teznie Pugh as New Superintendent

21 February 2020

Planet Finder Validates Its First Habitable-Zone Exoplanet, a Mini Neptune

10 February 2020

Distant Giant Planets Form Differently than ‘Failed Stars’

07 February 2020

Caroline Morley Receives Annie Jump Cannon Award

07 January 2020

Texas Astronomer Helps NASA Planet Hunter Find its First Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone World

2019

20 December 2019

Twin Astronomer Probes ‘DNA’ of Twin Stars to Reveal Family History of the Milky Way

11 December 2019

UT Austin Astronomer Spies Most Distant Dusty Galaxy Hidden in Plain Sight

31 October 2019

New Telescope Dedicated at McDonald Observatory

30 October 2019

Giant Magellan Telescope Signs Contract for Telescope Structure

27 August 2019

Newly Discovered Giant Planet Slingshots Around its Star

19 August 2019

A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface

23 July 2019

McDonald Observatory Will Promote Dark Skies Awareness with Gift from Apache Corporation

17 July 2019

The New Voice of StarDate

01 July 2019

StarDate’s Sandy Wood to Retire

10 June 2019

Unlocking Clues to a Distant Planet’s History

22 May 2019

Donation to UT Will Expand View of the Universe

03 May 2019

McDonald Observatory’s 80th Anniversary Kicks Off at State Capitol

26 March 2019

Two New Planets Discovered Using Artificial Intelligence

20 February 2019

Habitable Zone Planet Finder Enables Discovery of Planets Around Cool Stars with Hobby-Eberly Telescope

09 January 2019

Thousands of Stars Observed Turning into Crystals for the First Time

08 January 2019

J. Craig Wheeler Shares Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award

2018

12 December 2018

Texas Astronomers Find that Dark Matter Dominates Across Cosmic Time

04 October 2018

StarDate Radio Program Celebrates 40 Years

12 September 2018

Magnetic Waves Create Chaos in Star-Forming Clouds

06 September 2018

Galactic “Wind” Stifling Star Formation is Most Distant Yet Seen

20 August 2018

New Geodetic Observatory Coming to UT Austin’s McDonald Observatory

14 August 2018

Excavation Begins on Giant Magellan Telescope Site in Chile

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

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