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This artist’s illustration gives an impression of how common planets are around the stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The planets, their orbits, and their host stars are all vastly magnified compared to their real separations. A six- year search that surveyed mil... More »
This artist’s concept depicts an itsy bitsy planetary system — so compact, in fact, that it’s more like Jupiter and its moons than a star and its planets. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler mission have discovered the thre... More »
This artist’s concept depicts the tiny planetary system surrounding KOI-961. Tinier than Earth, the three planets are the smallest known exoplanets. [Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech] A team of astronomers led by scientists at the Caltech has discovered the three smal... More »
A bubbling cauldron of star birth is highlighted in this new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonia CfA | › See callouts The stars we see today weren’t always as serene as they appear, floating alone in the... More »
This new image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light as seen by the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions, and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/ST... More »
This enormous section of the Milky Way galaxy is a mosaic of images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus are featured in this 1,000-square degree expanse. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA A new,... More »
Color-enhanced UAVSAR interferogram images of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, taken between January 2010 and May 2011. The images show the east rift zone of Kilauea, about 6 miles (9.7 kilometers) from the summit caldera. Lava has been flowing from the east rift zon... More »
This is an artist’s concept of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during its cruise phase between launch and final approach to Mars. The spacecraft includes a disc-shaped cruise stage (on the left) attached to the aeroshell. The spacecraft’s rover (Curi... More »
Joshua S. Friedman (left) and Richmond A. Wolf Two business leaders, Joshua S. Friedman and Richmond A. Wolf, have been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Caltech. Friedman will serve on the board as a trustee and Wolf (MS ’94, PhD ’97) as a young alumni ... More »
The second of NASA’s two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has successfully completed its planned main engine burn and is now in lunar orbit. Working together, GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B will study the moon as never before. “NASA greets t... More »
Although many mental illnesses are uniquely human, animals sometimes exhibit abnormal behaviors similar to those seen in humans with psychological disorders. Such behaviors are called endophenotypes. Researchers at the Caltech discovered that mice lacking a ge... More »
Astronomers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are ruling out the possibility that the 2005 YU55 asteroid is likely to fall down on Earth within the next century. But it will get close next week. The rocky object was reported earlier to be com... More »
