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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The event will be held on Thursday, May 3, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in , through its Business Opportunities Office, will host a supplier fair featuring 20 to 25 local and nati... More »
Images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft Images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have revealed half-mile-sized (kilometer-sized) objects punching through parts of Saturn’s F ring, leaving glittering trails behind them. These trails in the rings, which scientists ar... More »
A new airborne study with NASA contributions measured surprising levels of the potent greenhouse gas methane coming from cracks in Arctic sea ice and areas of partial sea ice cover. This image was taken over the Arctic Ocean at a latitude of approximately 71 d... More »
The retreat of Pedersen Glacier in Alaska. Left: summer 1917. Right: summer 2005. Image credit: 1917 photo captured by Louis H. Pedersen; 2005 photo taken by Bruce F. Molnia. Source: The Glacier Photograph Collection, National Snow and Ice Data Center /World D... More »
[Credit: Sky & Telescope magazine] An entirely new globe of the moon—the first in over 40 years—is now available, thanks, in part, to Caltech alumni. Using images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, a team at Sky & Telescope magazine, includi... More »
Phoebe’s true nature is revealed in startling clarity in this mosaic of two images taken during Cassini’s flyby on June 11, 2004. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 e... More »
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has selected two Caltech seniors, Arvind Kannan and Brian Lawrence, among 15 students to receive the Hertz Fellowship for the applied sciences and engineering this year. Selected from a pool of more than 600 applicants, the... More »
Arc of Enceladus This image was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on April 14, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus at approximately 75,067 miles (120,808 kilometers) away. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute These raw, unprocessed images... More »
Iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, 1984 Image credit: Susan Digby Icebergs are a natural and beautiful part of Earth’s cryosphere, and are closely monitored and studied by scientists around the world. We asked JPL research scientists Ben Holt and Michael... More »
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make a close approach to the south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on April 14, 2012. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Less than three weeks after its last visit to the Saturnian moon Enceladus, JPL’s Cassini spacecraft re... More »
Many different species of nematodes were found by the Sternberg lab to communicate using the same types of chemical cues. [Credit: Caltech] All animals seem to have ways of exchanging information—monkeys vocalize complex messages, ants create scent trails to f... More »
This artist’s concept shows a “feeding,” or active, supermassive black hole with a jet streaming outward at nearly the speed of light. Such active black holes are often found at the hearts of elliptical galaxies. Not all black holes have jets, but when they do... More »
