The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...

Born June 29, 1868, in Chicago, George Ellery Hale revolutionized American astronomy by, among other things, championing the ...

Mirrors with diameters bigger than the 200-inch (5-meter) at Palomar Observatory were presumed too costly and impossible to fabricate. They would also require enormous structures to house them.

Vera Rubin fundamentally advanced our knowledge of galactic dynamics, laid the groundwork for dark matter research, and worked throughout her life to ensure women had a place in science ...

“Season” has ended, part-timers have left for the summer, and the rest of us have the desert to ourselves — roads, restaurants, attractions, and hiking trails. Yes, you can hike in the summer if you ...

From then on, I knew I wanted to study something about space.” Last fall, Kaur spent her first week as a UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. student in astronomy on the top of Mount Hamilton in the Diablo Range east ...

The tiny spot of light known as 3C-147 looked no different from the countless millions of dim stars that can be picked out by the giant, 200-in. telescope on top of Mount Palomar. But when ...

We got a telescope bigger than Mount Palomar [the observatory atop Mount Palomar, which is home to three active research telescopes] one million miles out in outer space and it's working beautifully.

As of 10 a.m. Thursday, according to the weather service, the 24-hour multi-storm precipitation totals reached 1.7 inches in Pine Hills; 1.66 at Henshaw Dam; 1.47 in Mesa Grande; 1.43 in Descanso ...

Some 30 evenings a year, Astronomer Maarten Schmidt, 36, struggles with an electrically heated flight suit and enters the great, silvery dome of California’s Mount Palomar Observatory. There ...