Two federal grant cuts hit Palomar Family Justice Center, but the center is lucky to absorb the losses, but not without ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but whereas astronomers had originally thought that the star was a red giant ...

The star blinked once—just a flash in the sky above Palomar Observatory in 2020. To most, it was another transient burst in the cosmos, one among countless. But to these astronomers, it looked like ...

A sudden flash of light in 2020 caught the attention of astronomers scanning the sky. That brief signal, spotted by Caltech’s ...

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), which began operations in 2017 using the 48-inch telescope at Palomar Observatory, is responsible for almost two-thirds of these detections. That makes it the ...

Caption the Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California with an image of the Milky Way in the background. The stars represent the number of supernovae discovered in each ...

Though some call for her resignation, Palomar’s Diane Hansen maintains strong support from majority of trustees ...