Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

Angeles National Forest is closed to the public today until Wednesday at midnight because of critical fire danger and to ...

The air is still so bad that field crews cannot yet work safely. When they go out, they expect to to find snapped, broken or dried out young trees.

The Los Angeles Times notes that the galleries have been sealed to prevent smoke from damaging the priceless art inside ... the historic observatory atop Mount Wilson (also a popular hiking ...

Firefighters put out a fire burning inside a tree after the Eaton Fire burned through the mountains of the Angeles National Forest near Mount Wilson Observatory north of Pasadena, Thursday ...

Firefighters put out a fire burning inside a tree after the Eaton Fire burned through the mountains of the Angeles National Forest near Mount Wilson Observatory north of Pasadena, Thursday ...

The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...

But Hubble determined that V1, located inside the Andromeda "nebula ... the Andromeda galaxy, at the Mount Wilson Observatory high above Los Angeles. In short, Edwin Hubble is the man who ...

Meanwhile, firefighters battled multiple wildfires Thursday that ravaged communities across Los Angeles, destroying more than ...