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The laboratory that flew a helicopter on Mars is now building four drones to hop across the Moon. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is designing and constructing the propulsive drones at the center of MoonFall, a mission to survey the lunar South Po... More »
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is set to launch four propulsive drones, known as MoonFall, to the lunar South Pole in a mission designed to lay the groundwork for a future Moon Base and a sustained U.S. presence on the Moon. “MoonFall mission will blaze a pa... More »
The first image of a black hole was not really a photograph. It was a computational puzzle, assembled from fragments of radio data collected by telescopes scattered across the globe. Katie Bouman helped solve it. On Friday night, the Caltech professor who play... More »
NASA announced Friday that for the first time in its history, the contract to manage and operate Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be opened to competitive bidding, ending more than six decades in which the California Institute of Technology — Pasadena’s largest ... More »
The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech today announced the 2026 class of Brown Investigators. The cohort, the third to be selected through the Brown Institute for Basic Sciences, comprises eight distinguished mid-career faculty working on fundamenta... More »
A Caltech team working on brain-targeted cancer drug delivery. An ArtCenter student who designed a collapsible commuter helmet. A pair of USC entrepreneurs behind a high-performance electric bike. All of them stood in the same room on a Monday evening in April... More »
Three years ago, a Caltech physicist stood on a campus rooftop and detected energy transmitted from a satellite 300 miles above. On May 30, Harry Atwater will walk into the building next door and explain what comes next. Atwater, the Howard Hughes Professor of... More »
A satellite has been circling Earth since August 2024, pinpointing methane leaks from oil rigs, landfills, and coal mines. The Pasadena nonprofit behind it wants to find more. Carbon Mapper announced April 30 that it plans to deploy a next-generation spectrome... More »
More than 2,000 students, teachers, and volunteers took part in the 2026 Southern California Science Olympiad State Tournament, hosted at Caltech and Polytechnic School in April. Organized nationwide, Science Olympiad competitions test teams of middle and high... More »
Imaging is a critical technique in biology—from identifying cancerous cells in biopsies to observing how immune cells like macrophages hunt down and destroy pathogens. Traditionally, distinguishing and labeling individual cells in images and videos has been an... More »
A report published Sunday by the Los Angeles Times said the Jet Propulsion Laboratory could face renewed financial pressure under a proposed federal budget that would significantly reduce funding for NASA. According to theTimes, the Trump administration’s Fisc... More »
The water that fills Earth’s oceans may have begun as frost on particles of dust smaller than candle smoke, locked inside enormous frozen clouds drifting between the stars. That is the picture emerging from a study published Wednesday in The Astrophysical Jour... More »
