NASA’s Sea Level Change Team, led by Ben Hamlington, a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, has concluded coastal flooding will increase significantly over the next 30 years, with the sea level along U.S. coastlines rising betwee... More »
A history flight in which a 4-pound NASA helicopter would attempt to hover above the surface of Mars on Sunday was delayed by at least several days Saturday, officials said. “#MarsHelicopter 1st flight attempt delayed to no earlier than April 14. During the hi... More »
For 15 years, the eastern lawn of the Athenaeum has been home to the Rath Al Fresco, a part of long summer evenings at Caltech. This fall, construction will begin on a permanent home for the Al Fresco on the north side of the Athenaeum. The Rath Al Fresco bega... More »
There are no garbage trucks equipped to leave the atmosphere and pick up debris floating around the Earth. But what if we could send a robot to do the job? Local scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working on adhesive gripping tools that could grapple ... More »
Peters received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1993 and a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. He joined the Caltech faculty as an assistant professor of chemistry in 1999, became an associate professor in ... More »
During the nearly 14 months that it has spent on the red planet, Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, has scooped soil, drilled rocks, and analyzed samples by exposing them to laser beams, X-rays, and alpha particles using the most sophisticated... More »
It is something that science fiction lovers have dreamed about for decades: the possibility of interstellar travel. The popular science fiction series Star Trek placed this achievement roughly two hundred years in the future, but mankind’s abilities may surpas... More »
The California Institute of Technology, in a move that creates an academic division unlike any other among its peer institutions, has combined the disciplines of biology and biological engineering into a new Division of Biology and Biological Engineering (BBE)... More »
A NASA-led team of scientists has uncovered strong evidence that soot from a rapidly industrializing Europe caused the abrupt retreat of mountain glaciers in the European Alps that began in the 1860s, a period often thought of as the end of the Little Ice Age.... More »
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency’s four Great Observatories continues to illuminate the dark side of the cosmos with its infrared eyes. “I a... More »
People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA’s Cassini mission on July 19 — the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture. The mission has assembled a co... More »
Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has launched a four-minute video which features “Sammy the Second,” an animated character demonstrating how NASA’s Space Atomic Clock project is being used in deep-space navigation. Sammy the Second was introduced in the vi... More »
