A young mind builds an AI breakthrough Matteo Paz, a student at Pasadena High School, joined the Planet Finder Academy in the ...

Caltech says its Deep Synoptic Array will be larger and 100-times faster than any radio telescope ever constructed.

By the time its initial survey comes to an end, the telescope will have discovered about 1 billion new radio sources.

The ambitions are staggeringly vast. Once completed in 2029, the Deep Synoptic Array (DSA) will feature a whopping 1,650 ...

The California Institute of Technology on Tuesday announced plans to build the world's most sensitive radio telescope in the ...

Hundreds of radio dishes planned for a remote Nevada desert will scan millions of stars, galaxies, and other mysterious or ...

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, CA – Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, has been honored with the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy for his pioneering discoveries related to millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and ...

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 ...

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 ...