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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 NASA will host a news conference on Thursday, May 10, at 11 a.m. ... More »
Hiroo Kanamori, the John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been elected one of 21 new foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences. Eighty-four new members were also an... More »
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This image was created with data acquired by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument (AIRS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite during July 2009. Image Credit: NASA/JPL For 10 years, it has silently swooped through space in its orbital perch 438 miles (705 kilometers... More »
Kidspace Children’s Museum will see exhibit installation in Physics Forest commence on Monday, May 7, 2012, beginning at 7:00 a.m., and continuing Tuesday, May 8, beginning at 7:00 a.m. After two years in development, from the initial concept drawings in 201... More »
This color view of a mineral vein called “Homestake” comes from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The vein is about the width of a thumb and about 18 inches (45 centimeters) long. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell... More »
There is an old trick for remembering the difference between stalactites and stalagmites in a cave: Stalactites hold tight to the ceiling while stalagmites might one day grow to reach the ceiling. Now, it seems, stalagmites might also fill a hole in our unders... More »
This raw, unprocessed image was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on May 2, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus at approximately 239,799 miles (385,919 kilometers) away. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute › Larger view NASA’s Cassini sp... More »
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHU/UCSC Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close... More »
Jared R. Leadbetter, professor of environmental microbiology, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Fellows of the academy are elected annually through a selective, peer-review process based on their records of scientific achievem... More »
Artist concept of Cassini at Saturn. Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will be flying within about 46 miles (74 kilometers) of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on Wednesday, May 2, aiming primarily to learn more about the moon’s internal structure. The f... More »
Jay Wilson Heefner II, an electrical engineer who contributed greatly to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) project over the course of 18 years at Caltech, has died. He was 51. Before arriving at Caltech in 1994, Heefner had worke... More »
