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Bright Rays from Canuleia Crater In this image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, bright material extends out from the crater Canuleia on Vesta. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/UMD JPL’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface ... More »
As a four-time participant in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, Caltech senior Brian Lawrence has been named a Putnam Fellow—an honor that goes to the top-five ranking individuals—for the fourth time, the maximum allowed by eligibility ... More »
NASA’s new, free “Earth-Now” iPhone app immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA’s fleet of Earth science satellites, bringing a world of ever-changing climate data to your fingertips. A free, new iPho... More »
Atmospheric researcher John H. Seinfeld, the Louis E. Nohl Professor and professor of chemical engineering at Caltech, has been named one of two winners of this year’s Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an honor regarded as the top prize of environment... More »
Student-controlled robots compete at the FIRST Robotics Competition by shooting foam basketballs into hoops. › Image gallery If you had chosen Cimarron Memorial High School, Orcutt Academy High School and Dos Pueblos High School Engineering Academy as your top... More »
NASA’s new, free “Earth Now” iPhone app immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA’s fleet of Earth science satellites, bringing a world of ever-changing climate data to your fingertips. A free, new iPho... More »
These images, based on ones obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, show how the pull of Saturn’s gravity can deform the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in the south polar region crisscrossed by fissures known as “tiger stripes.” Image credit: NASA/JPL-Calte... More »
Artist concept of Cassini spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL CASSINI MISSION STATUS REPORT The Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument (CAPS) aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft at Saturn has resumed operations. Mission managers received confirmation on Friday, Ma... More »
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has honored Shu-ou Shan, professor of chemistry at Caltech, with this year’s Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry. According to the ACS website, the purpose of the award is “to recognize an outs... More »
GRACE – A Decade of Amazing Science On March 17, 2002, NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) launched the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), a novel space mission that has given scientists a new understanding of changes in Earth’s natural sy... More »
Top, from left to right: Andrea M. Ghez, Mark H. Kryder, Simon Ramo. Bottom, from left to right: Charles E. Wheatley III, Clyde A. Hutchison III. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has recognized five of its graduates with the Distinguished Alu... More »
Artist’s concept of NuSTAR in orbit. NuSTAR has a 33-foot (10-meter) mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The planned launch of NASA’s Nuclear Spectro... More »
