When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on Palomar Mountain near San Diego.

With new observatories like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and NASA’s Roman Space Telescope coming online, astronomers anticipate discovering similar planet-star collisions for further study.

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising ... light using the Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, California.

telescope on top of Mount Palomar. But when astronomers from Caltech’s radio observatory reported that their 90-ft. dish antennas were picking up powerful radio waves from 3C-147’s faint gleam ...

"It really is a telescope that is perfectly suited for making the next step." Bob Blum, Rubin's director of operations, says the observatory will survey almost the entire southern sky every night ...

Palomar Mountain is famous for the Palomar Observatory, which houses one of the world’s largest telescopes. While the observatory itself closes at night, the surrounding areas offer incredible ...

It was there George Ellery Hale conceived and founded the Mount Wilson Observatory, the home of some of the most important telescopes in the development of modern astronomy and forever linked with ...

"The James Webb team just achieved a miracle. 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 ...

the observatory is the home of two of the largest telescopes of their time, the Hooker and the Snow Solar, as well as being the site of significant scientific and Los Angeles history. To hear more ...

The Simons Observatory (SO), a most advanced network of telescopes aimed at mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented precision, has reached a major milestone: the Large ...