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As many in the local arts and sciences community express dismay over President Trump’s proposed 2018 federal budget, officials representing NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech say they remain optimistic and believe they will be sufficiently funded to ... More »
Caltech President Dr. Thomas Rosenbaum issued a letter to the Caltech community today in which he said that President Trump’s proposed federal budget contains draconian cuts which will probably not be approved by Congress and that the academic community needs ... More »
This spring, Israeli programmer, poet, and new media artist Eran Hadas will be teaching at Caltech as an artist-in-residence through the Israel Institute. Hadas, who is based in Tel Aviv, combines poetry and computer science, creating software that writes poet... More »
Some climate models are suggesting that El Niño may return later this year, but for now, the Pacific Ocean lingers in a neutral “La Nada” state, according to climatologist Bill Patzert of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The latest map of sea level height dat... More »
A new study in the journal Nature Astronomy reports that the south polar region of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is warmer than expected just a few feet below its icy surface. This suggests that Enceladus’ ocean of liquid water might be only a couple of miles be... More »
Five teams of dedicated, savvy and relentless Caltech mechanical engineering students put their homemade robots to the test on a specially made relay race inspired “Robstacle” course at the 32nd Annual Engineering Design Competition Thursday. Students spent ov... More »
A team of NASA-sponsored scientists will meet with the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Space Research Institute (IKI) next week to continue work on a Joint Science Definition Team study focused on identifying shared science objectives for Venus exploration. The v... More »
In celebration of International Women’s Day on Wednesday and Women’s History Month in March, NASA has unveiled an educational virtual tour that brings students into the exciting careers of seven women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields ... More »
Finding derelict spacecraft and space debris in Earth’s orbit can be a technological challenge. Detecting these objects in orbit around Earth’s moon is even more difficult. Optical telescopes are unable to search for small objects hidden in the bright glare of... More »
Ronald William Prest Drever, professor of physics, emeritus, at Caltech, passed away on March 7, 2017, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was 85 years old. Drever was co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), along with Kip S. Thorn... More »
Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have — in just two years — nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential for use in solar fuels. They did so by developing a process that promises to speed the di... More »
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver last week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars’ moon Phobos, thanks to the skilled teams at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraf... More »
