More times than she can remember, Jean Mueller stood on the catwalk of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory scanning the night sky, trying to time the exact moment to close the dome.

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 — When Mansi Manoj Kasliwal was 15, she left her hometown of Indore, for boarding school in the United States. Encouraged by a teacher to pursue science, she soon found herself working on ...