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On Wednesday, April 8, the Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace at Caltech was formally dedicated in a ceremony held outside the north entrance of Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory. Caltech faculty members, students, and staff, gathered alongside... More »
The Caltech Space Challenge (CSC) returned to campus March 23–27 after a four-year hiatus, bringing together 32 graduate students from around the world to design a dual-target space mission to visit Venus and a nearby comet. Despite being Earth’s nearest twin ... More »
Caltech student teams will pitch original entrepreneurial projects Monday at the Pasadena Innovation Showcase — ideas spanning AI programs, medical technologies, sustainability initiatives and cybersecurity — each developed without faculty mentors or lab-group... More »
Among the 10 pounds of mementos packed aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft as it hurtles back toward Earth is a copy of a photograph that was born in a Pasadena control room 62 years ago — the first close-up image of the Moon ever captured by an American spacecraft... More »
? The chip that created the camera phone, one of the most widely used technologies in the world, got its start because of an outer space mission. Even though it didn’t get to go. In the 1990s, NASA sought smaller and lighter ways to send camera technology into... More »
A free event at the California Institute of Technology on April 14 will feature a panel on commercializing quantum research, a fireside chat with a Jet Propulsion Laboratory physicist, and exhibits from local startups, as Pasadena marks World Quantum Day durin... More »
Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will have a part to play when the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years launches today. Once NASA;s Artemis II departs Earth orbit, communications will be handled in part by NASA’s Deep Space Network, which... More »
A startup born out of the California Institute of Technology launched Monday with a research paper arguing that practical quantum computers could be built with a fraction of the hardware previously thought necessary — and with Pasadena as its home base. Oratom... More »
A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has proposed a new design for quantum computers that could slash the hardware needed to build one by roughly 100 times, a theoretical advance that the scientists say could make these long-promised... More »
As NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission targets a 3:24 p.m. liftoff today from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the critical technology and leadership guiding the four astronauts around the Moon have deep roots right here in Pasadena. The hist... More »
In 2024, Caltech’s Wei Gao, professor of medical engineering, and members of his laboratory developed a prototype for a smart mask that uses clues from exhaled breath to monitor for a range of medical conditions, including respiratory ailments such as asthma a... More »
A high school robotics team founded by a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer and sponsored by the Pasadena-based institution will compete next weekend at a free, public regional championship in Rosemead. San Marino High School’s Titanium Robotics is among ... More »
