JEFF DAVIS COUNTY, Texas — West Texas is known for having some of the darkest skies in the country. It's something you have to see for yourself when you're at the McDonald Observatory. But on the ...

MCDONALD OBSERVATORY, Texas — The Mcdonald Observatory is attracting visitors from all over the world who are making a stop before they head to their destinations to get in the path of totality to ...

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 ...

FORT DAVIS McDonald Observatory and the non-profit organization Texan by Nature announced via press release to recognize the efforts of Catalyst Midstream Partners, a joint venture between Howard ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Astronomer Taft Armandroff has been appointed the new director of the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas, which is part of the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin.

The observatory joins a network of six University of Texas sites dedicated to scientific research, environmental monitoring and conservation efforts. McDonald Observatory is the newest member of The ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The W.J. McDonald Observatory of The University of Texas at Austin has received a pledge of a $750,000 joint donation from George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell, The Cynthia and George ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new exhibit at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum is bringing the McDonald Observatory to the University of Texas campus. UNITED STATES – AUGUST 29: McDonald Observatory, ...