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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 »
For nearly half a century, the accepted measurements of Jupiter — the solar system’s largest planet — rested on six data points collected by spacecraft that flew past the gas giant in the 1970s and never looked back. Those numbers treated Jupiter’s roiling atm... More »
On Wednesday, April 8, the Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace at Caltech was formally dedicated in a ceremony held outside the north entrance of Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory. Caltech faculty members, students, and staff, gathered alongside... More »
The Caltech Space Challenge (CSC) returned to campus March 23–27 after a four-year hiatus, bringing together 32 graduate students from around the world to design a dual-target space mission to visit Venus and a nearby comet. Despite being Earth’s nearest twin ... More »
Caltech student teams will pitch original entrepreneurial projects Monday at the Pasadena Innovation Showcase — ideas spanning AI programs, medical technologies, sustainability initiatives and cybersecurity — each developed without faculty mentors or lab-group... More »
Among the 10 pounds of mementos packed aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft as it hurtles back toward Earth is a copy of a photograph that was born in a Pasadena control room 62 years ago — the first close-up image of the Moon ever captured by an American spacecraft... More »
