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

Ten students from high schools on or near the San Carlos Apache Reservation are participating in a nine-week summer ...

Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...

MOUNT WILSON, Calif. (KABC) -- The Mount Wilson Observatory is reopening to the public more than four months after the devastating Eaton Fire nearly burned down the Southern California landmark.

The Mount Wilson Observatory is an important site in the history of modern astronomy. With the famous Hooker telescope, early 20th century astronomers made key observations about the Milky Way and ...

The Mount Wilson Observatory was once home to the world’s largest telescope, and more than a century ago, on Jan. 1, 1925, astronomer Edwin Hubble made one of his most important discoveries at ...

News Published: 16 July 1938 Popular Astronomy at Mount Wilson Observatory Nature 142, 108 (1938) Cite this article ...

In 1903, Hale visited Mount Wilson, a 5,715-foot summit in the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena, and was enamored with the possibility of a mountaintop observatory in California’s milder ...

Big peak, pink skies: Mount Wilson Observatory shared some awesome aurora photos Enjoy a time-lapse video taken from the mountain-high astronomy landmark during the rare event.

News Nation/World Saving Mt. Wilson Observatory: Inside the long battle to maintain the spot where we found our place in the universe Oct. 6, 2023 Updated Sat., Oct. 7, 2023 at 6:10 p.m.

Despite its august place in scientific history, Mt. Wilson was no longer the best place on Earth to do astronomy. Carnegie pulled its funding from the observatory and closed the big telescope in ...

Astronomers moved on to clearer skies, beneath which larger and more powerful telescopes would be built. And Mt. Wilson Observatory discovered what so many aging luminaries in L.A. have: Once your ...