This artist’s concept illustrates a dusty planet-forming disk, similar to the one that vanished around the star called TYC 8241 2652. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Imagine if the rings of Saturn suddenly disappeared. Astronomers have witnessed the equivalent ... More »
This full-circle scene combines 817 images taken by the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. It shows the terrain that surrounded the rover while it was stationary for four months of work during its most recent Martian winter... More »
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). [Credit: CERN] Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland, have discovered a new particle that may be the long-sought Higgs boson, the fundamental particle t... More »
Maria Spiropulu and Harvey Newman, both professors of physics at Caltech, lead the Caltech team of 40 physicists, students, and engineers that is part of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. S... More »
While much of the national focus in the early summer of 2012 has been on the destructive wildfires in Colorado, as of July 3, 2012, dozens of major wildfires were burning across the western United States, including six in Montana alone, according to the intera... More »
The Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) has selected Ares Rosakis as the recipient of the P.S. Theocaris Award. Rosakis is Caltech’s Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics, professor of mechanical engineering, and chair of the Division of Engineerin... More »
Three engineers from the European Space Agency wearing blue hoods are investigating the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) that recently arrived at NASA Goddard. The MIRI sees light in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Credit: NASA Members... More »
The Flame Nebula sits on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation most easily visible in the northern hemisphere during winter evenings. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A new image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows the ... More »
The Curiosity rover and its sky crane separate from the back which helped protect both during entry in the Martian atmosphere. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech One month and a day after celebrating its independence with fireworks exhibitions throughout the count... More »
Long Cai’s new imaging technique (d.) can zoom in on and identify genetic information within a single cell. [Credit: Long Cai/Caltech] Last fall, assistant professor of chemistry Long Cai received a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (N... More »
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has taken its first snapshots of the highest-energy X-rays in the cosmos (lower right), producing images that are much crisper than previous high-energy telescopes (example in upper right). [Credit: NASA... More »
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has taken its first snapshots of the highest energy X-rays in the cosmos, the same kind used by doctors to take pictures of your bones. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NuSTAR Mission Status Report NASA’s ... More »
