(Left) Fred BS ’62 and Joyce Hameetman during the 2009 dedication of the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, which houses the Hameetman Auditorium. (Right) Fred Hameetman (far left) with fellow classmates at the 1962 grand opening of Winnett Student ... More »
NASA’s Global Hawk soars aloft from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The NASA Global Hawk is well-suited for hurricane investigations because it can over-fly hurricanes at altitudes greater than 60,000 feet with flight durations of up to 28 hours – something pil... More »
Medicare’s new method for buying medical supplies and equipment—everything from wheelchairs and hospital beds to insulin shots and oxygen tanks—is doomed to face severe difficulties, according to a new study by Caltech researchers. The Center for Medicar... More »
Artist concept of lightning on Venus. Image credit: ESA A Venus transit across the face of the sun is a relatively rare event — occurring in pairs with more than a century separating each pair. There have been all of 53 transits of Venus across the sun between... More »
Cassini imaging scientists used views like this one to help them identify the source locations for individual jets spurting ice particles, water vapor and trace organic compounds from the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science... More »
Mike Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been named a co-winner of the 2012 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for his efforts to understand the outer solar... More »
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has a complex set of mirrors, or optics, that will help it see high-energy X-ray light in greater detail than ever before. These images show different views of one of two optic units onboard NuSTAR, each... More »
There are trillions of bacteria living in our bodies, making up complex communities of microbes regulating processes like digestion and immunity. For Caltech biologist Sarkis Mazmanian, they also make up the focus of his research: understanding how the “good” ... More »
An artist’s depiction of the twin spacecraft that comprise NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. During the GRAIL mission’s science phase, spacecraft (Ebb and Flow) transmit radio signals precisely defining the distance between them ... More »
Later this week, a four-wheeled robot designed and built by Caltech undergraduate students will maneuver, apparently under its own guidance, through various challenges at the NASA Johnson Space Center Rock Yard in Houston. In actuality, the robot’s every move ... More »
DNA tile ribbons (shown here in an atomic force microscopy image) can store information in their arrangement of tiles—12.5nm x 4nm x 2nm self-assembled DNA structures. This information can be propagated during ribbon growth, and replicated in a cycle of ribb... More »
These series of radar images of asteroid 1999 RQ36 were obtained by NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. on Sept 23, 1999. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in , has accurately determined the mass ... More »
