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

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Hubble introduced a new, larger perspective when he used the largest telescope in the world at the time, the 2.5-metre Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, to precisely ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious. At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California just in time to use the new Hooker 100-inch telescope, at the time the largest ...

On the night the deadly Eaton Fire broke out in Los Angeles County, a gas station video camera captured what appeared to be sparks on a steep flank of Mount Wilson on Altadena’s outskirts and then ...

Together the Eaton and Palisades fires have burned almost 40,000 acres, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, and killing 28 people. They've also burned through several beloved hiking areas.

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — San Diego Fire-Rescue crews responded to a vegetation ... the impacted area was located in the area of westbound Mt. Soledad Freeway (SR-52) before the Genesee Avenue ...

MT. MORRIS, Mich. (WJRT) - Firefighters found the body of a 66-year-old man inside a residence that caught fire in Mt. Morris over the weekend. The fire was reported around 1:30 p.m. Saturday in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cleveland firefighters are on the scene of an apartment building fire Sunday morning. According to Assistant Public Information Officer Gerardo Colon, crews from Battalion ...

Video from a gas station security camera shows what a new filing in a lawsuit alleges is the start of this month’s deadly Eaton Fire in the Los Angeles area – electrical sparking at a utility ...

On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

Los Angeles County was bracing itself yet again Thursday after a new fire broke out and spread to more than 10,000 acres. The Hughes Fire started at about 10:50 a.m. local time Wednesday near ...