Pasadena’s annual Connect Week return next week for its 2024 edition, showcasing the city’s expanding role in tech innovation and policy-making. The event, running from Oct. 21-27, brings together local talent and industry leaders to explore cutting-edge topic... More »
While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA/JPL study proposes microbes could find a potential home beneath frozen water on the planet’s surface. Through computer modeling, the study’s authors have shown that the amount of sunlight ... More »
? Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229 B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute’s Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing mystery has persisted about this orb: It is too dim for its mass. ... More »
ArtCenter College of Design is launching Creative Tech 2024 on Oct.23, a three-day program focused on the transformative role of artificial intelligence, sustainable design challenges, and new approaches to entrepreneurship in creative fields. Building on the ... More »
Astronomers say the brightest moon of the year will be visible throughout the Southland and elsewhere Wednesday evening, reaching its apex Thursday — for all those willing to stir before dawn for a look. The super moon will be appearing on the horizon just bef... More »
? NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The spacecraft launched at 9:06 a.m. Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy ro... More »
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is poised to make history as National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Europa Clipper spacecraft prepares for its Monday morning launch. The mission aims to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa, searching for potential ingr... More »
In a bid to foster growth in technology-based entrepreneurship, the Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum is hosting an event exploring the future of renewable energy on Saturday, Oct. 19, 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Caltech campus, 1216 E. California Blvd., in Pasadena. The... More »
Jet Propulsion Laboratory is leading a groundbreaking mission to explore the potential for life on one of Jupiter’s moons, with the Europa Clipper spacecraft scheduled to launch no earlier than Monday, Oct. 14. The mission, managed by JPL in Pasadena, aims to ... More »
Carnegie Science, which is expanding its presence in Pasadena, is developing six cutting-edge telescope instruments whose functions range from exoplanet detection to dark matter exploration, underscoring the institution’s commitment to advancing our understand... More »
Using data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the nonprofit Carbon Mapper has released the first methane and carbon dioxide detections from the Tanager-1 satellite. The detections highlight methane plumes in... More »
Physicists like to measure things, and they like those measurements to be as precise as possible. That means working at unfathomably small scales, where distances are much smaller than even the diameters of subatomic particles. Researchers also want to measure... More »
