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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.–Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. A group of 16 astronomers, led by Kartik Sheth of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of ...

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 ...

The person on the Metro Gold Line holding a sign about black holes, planets outside our solar system and aliens may actually know what he’s talking about. To take science out of stuffy lecture halls ...