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 ...

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, ...

The University of Texas McDonald Observatory high on Mt. Locke in the Davis Mountains is an internationally recognized center for astronomical research. It also invites the public to experience 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 ...

FORT DAVIS, TEXAS — A group of amateur astronomers has used the 2.1-meter (82-inch) Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory to make the first “through-the- Eyepiece” sighting of so-called the ...