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I think most West Texans are in agreement that one of the BEST thing about living out here are the big, open skies. And that’s especially true at night.…

Blobs in space emitting eerie, unexplained light have been puzzling astronomers for more than 15 years. Now, they think they are on to the cause of the mysterious glow.

An L-shaped machine in Louisiana is hunting for some of the most powerful waves in existence: gravitational waves. This wave detector acts like a giant tape measure to capture bends in space and time.

If you’ve been through Balmorhea in recent months, and certainly if you live there, you’ve probably noticed a couple new drilling rigs in the area. Oil…

A remote campground in southwest New Mexico has recently become a sanctuary for star gazers seeking a pristine night sky at a time when the rapid spread…

WINK — Sheriff George Keely’s truck bobbed as he cruised down a particularly warped and cracked stretch of county road. “This is the road I don’t like to…

Update Thursday, 11:00 AM The commercial space company Blue Origin will live-stream video of a rocket launch from its test site in West Texas for the…

This story has been updated. The commercial space company Blue Origin completed another test launch Saturday morning from its secretive facility north of…

New research led by Texas Astronomer Dr. Natalie Gosnell, is shedding light on a longstanding mystery about certain stars called "blue stragglers" - stars…

Big news this morning from NASA’s planet hunting mission. Dr. Mike Endl, a research scientist with The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald…