It was here, surely with the help of this lovely library collection, that Hale invented the spectrohelioscope, which you can ...

For most of human history, time was measured in days and seasons — not billions of years. The idea that the universe itself had an age is astonishingly recent. It’s a tale that begins not with stars ...

Hundreds of runners took park in the Mount Wilson Trail Race on Saturday, Oct. 4, an effort to also raise awareness of the volunteer effort needed to restore the trail, which has endured damage from ...

Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO)—Southern California’s esteemed home to several of the most groundbreaking astronomical discoveries in history—is pleased to present the eighth “Sunday Afternoon Concerts ...

Garrett Wilson didn’t have to sign a contract extension. He wasn’t forced to commit further to the Jets and ink that four-year, $130 million deal prior to training camp. But in doing so, the standout ...

More than 600 runners are gearing up to run the Mount Wilson Trail Race on Oct. 4. Founded in 1908, it is one of the oldest running events in California. The race, which was held sporadically until 61 ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

More times than she can remember, Jean Mueller stood on the catwalk of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory scanning the night sky, trying to time the exact moment to close the dome.

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director of the observatory, astrophysicist George Ellery Hale. Good timing for ...

While there's a new observatory in the works in Amherst, Massachusetts, it's not aimed at looking up. It's a landform observatory. On a recent hot summer day Thomas Johnson, founder of the Friends of ...