This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta. The depiction of Vesta is based on images obtained by Dawn’s framing cameras. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Dawn Mission Status Report Engineers working on NASA’s Dawn space... More »
This full-resolution image shows part of the deck of NASA’s Curiosity rover taken from one of the rover’s Navigation cameras looking toward the back left of the rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. ... More »
Caltech geologists on a three-day trek on horseback to install a GPS station in Upper Mustang, a remote region in northern Nepal. Field geologists at Caltech come face to face with bears and wolverines, climb steep cliffs and mountains, and endure scorching su... More »
The American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) named Caltech chemistry professor Shu-ou Shan a recipient of the 2013 Young Investigator Award. The award will be presented at the ASBMB annual meeting in Boston next April. Shan was recognized... More »
Members of the Mars Science Laboratory team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) received a special call from President Barack Obama Monday morning. “I just wanted to call and say congratulations to the entire Mars Science Laboratory team and really all of ... More »
FLEX ALERT: ENERGY CONSERVATION IN PASADENA CRITICAL DURING HEAT WAVE� PASADENA, Calif.—As Southern California continues to bake in the current hot weather, Pasadena Water and Power (PWP) is again urging its customers to keep conserving energy to help re... More »
Heading back to school can be a financially stressful time of year for any family, but particularly for low-wage workers and homeless families. That’s why The Salvation Army Pasadena Tabernacle Corps Community Center partnered with the local Lions Club and... More »
President Barack Obama called members of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover team at Jet Propulsion Laboratory this morning to congratulate them on the “incredibly impressive” mission. An audio recording of the call and video recording of the JPL team’s portion of t... More »
The Pasadena City Council will conduct a special meeting focused on the “SR-710 Study†project on Monday, August 13. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E. Green St., in the Conference Building, Rooms101-... More »
When Curiosity touched down safely on Mars Sunday night, John Grotzinger, the mission’s chief scientist and the Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology at Caltech, was given the “keys” to the car-sized rover. Since then, most of Curiosity’s time has been taken up ... More »
With temperatures expected to go above 100 degrees in parts of the desert, mountain, and valley areas of Los Angeles County, Pasadena Fire and Police Departments remind residents to take precautions. Air quality is also a concern and individuals with heart dis... More »
The good news this summer is that you don’t have to own a 60-meter ocean-going luxury super-yacht to put into port at the BBC (The Balboa Bay Club, as old-timers used to call it) because now under its new management the doors have been thrown open and even l... More »
