News: McDonald Observatory

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope spawned a new tension around when a major change in the universe happened.

Brendan Bowler was part of a team to help find the lowest-mass/closest-to-its-host-star distant planet ever found.

The on-campus museum also has opened its newest temporary exhibit, featuring a scale model of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the largest optical telescope in North America.

Universo Expansivo, a program of the Giant Magellan Telescope, will increase accessibility for students with vision loss through tactile astronomy kits and lesson plans.

Stella Offner and Arya Farahi are among the leads of a new multi-institution institute focused on AI and astronomy.

Michael Boylan-Kolchin and others show “early dark energy” might help solve the Hubble Tension and explain why there are more early galaxies than expected.

It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries.

Smith was director of McDonald Observatory from 1963 to 1989 and supported the launch of the StarDate radio program.

B-G Andersson is McDonald Observatory's new assistant director for research support.

The work reveals what planets outside our solar system are made of.