News: McDonald Observatory

Updates to Field Station Network member McDonald Observatory will be in the Frank N. Bash Visitors Center and improve and expand the visitor experience.

When completed in the early 2030s, the 213-foot-tall enclosure will be one of the largest mechanized buildings ever constructed.

The recently announced largest-ever gift to the college is helping to bring new research synergies.

James Webb Space Telescope images reveal three galaxies that may be actively forming when the universe was only 400 to 600 million years old.

The research team used the James Webb Space Telescope to make a surprising finding about a cold, distant world.

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology.

Jed McKinney and Cheng-Han Hsieh will pursue independent research in the formation of galaxies and solar systems.

Messier 82, 12 million light-years away, is relatively compact but hosts a frenzy of star formation activity.

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded Quang Tran, Ph.D. candidate in UT astronomy, one of its eight prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowships.

UT’s new Cosmic Frontier Center and McDonald Observatory will play key roles in aiding research into chemically young galaxies.