New machine-learning-based research by a Caltech research associate and a JPL senior research scientist has been shown to more accurately forecast the South Asian monsoon rainfall 10 to 30 days in advance. This is a significant improvement on current state-of-... More »
In a remarkable development for cardiovascular medicine, a promising and innovative young researcher at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena has accomplished significant strides in developing a... More »
NASA JPL’s Curiosity rover has begun exploring a new region of Mars, one that could reveal more about when liquid water disappeared once and for all from the Red Planet’s surface. Billions of years ago, Mars was much wetter and probably warmer than it is today... More »
Before joining the faculty this academic year as assistant professor of astronomy, Kareem El-Badry made headlines for debunking other researchers’ claims to have discovered black holes. A number of celestial phenomena that suggest the presence of a black hole—... More »
In less than six months, NASA is set to launch Europa Clipper on a 1.6-billion-mile (2.6-billion-kilometer) voyage to Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa. Designed by and built at Jet Propulsion Laboratory here in Pasadena, Europa was created to conquer threats from t... More »
This Pi Day, March 14, in an upstairs workspace in Caltech’s W. M. Keck Engineering Laboratories building, eight robotic arms were showing off their stuff. Under the watchful eye of the undergraduate students who built and programmed them, each robot performed... More »
New research by a Caltech-led team of researchers is shedding light on the enigmatic behavior of supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs). These objects have challenged astronomers for decades, initially thou... More »
Fans at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concerts in Los Angeles made SoFi Stadium and the ground around it “ring like a bell” last August, creating measurable seismic activity during each song. So say scientists from Caltech and UCLA, who collected seismic data durin... More »
Global average sea level rose by about 0.3 inches (0.76 centimeters) from 2022 to 2023, a relatively large jump due mostly to a warming climate and the development of a strong El Niño. The total rise is equivalent to draining a quarter of Lake Superior into th... More »
Imagine that you are considering buying stock in a company. You know what its current value is, and you suspect that you could make a healthy return on your investment. But this stock is very volatile: some days up, some days down. Yes, you could make a lot of... More »
To test bold new ideas in space and on Earth with the potential to expand our understanding of Earth, the solar system, and beyond, The Brinson Foundation has donated $100 million to Caltech to create The Brinson Exploration Hub. The Brinson Exploration Hub w... More »
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena has awarded Airbus a contract for the design and construction of two spacecraft for the GRACE-C mission, a joint venture with the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The mission, slated for a late 202... More »
