Before the Telescope: Palomar's Indigenous Astronomers
Cynthia Eller
Palomar Observatory creates a new digital exhibition to document the first astronomers at Palomar, the Indigenous peoples who observed and related to the night sky.
Shri Kulkarni, the George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Caltech, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
David Goodstein, the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor, Emeritus, and professor of physics and applied physics, emeritus, passed away on April 10.
Unusually Lightweight Black Hole Candidate Spotted by LIGO
LIGO has detected a candidate black hole with a mass that falls within a so-called mass gap between the heaviest known neutron stars and the lightest black holes.
The Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech, a 21st century center for science and engineering at the nanoscale, recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.