A Pasadena high school student built an artificial intelligence system to search one of astronomy’s largest datasets, ...

Maarten Schmidt, a former Caltech professor best known for discovering quasars, died this month at his home in Fresno. He was 92. Schmidt died on Sept. 17, Caltech officials announced. Schmidt had ...

Type Ia supernovae, one of the most dazzling phenomena in the universe, are produced when small dense stars called white dwarfs explode with ferocious intensity. At their peak, these supernovae can ...

Through his research at Caltech, a local high school student revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, broadened the potential of a NASA mission, and published a single-author paper.

Radio waves are hundreds of thousands of times longer than the waves of visible light. Originating from distant black holes and dying stars, they travel vast distances, giving a snapshot of far-flung ...

After decades of mounting tension between scientists and native Hawaiians, Caltech has completed its removal of a telescope from the summit of Maunakea, a dormant volcano that is revered by the island ...

Prototype dishes for Caltech’s DSA at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, nestled between the Sierra Nevada and the White Mountains in California’s Mojave. Credit: Katie Jameson / Caltech / DSA ...

For astrophysicist Mansi Kasliwal, her appointment to the historic Palomar Observatory as the new director was a full-circle moment. The California Institute of Technology announced her new position ...

PASADENA, Calif.– Panoramic images of the sky obtained at Palomar Observatory and by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), plus pointed observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope, form a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An accomplished Caltech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study ...

Join us as we search for Earths orbiting other stars with top astronomers discussing the Quest for a Living World. A reminder to everyone: tomorrow I moderate a really cool panel of astronomers, where ...