If you could drive a car around the giant Asteroid Vesta, you would need a road map akin to the atlas of images released from NASA’s Dawn mission. Twenty-nine new maps of the asteroid, one of which is shown here, show its mountains and craters at a scale simil... More »
To expand its involvement in online learning, the California Institute of Technology will offer courses through the online education platform edX beginning this October. The edX course platform is an online learning initiative launched in 2012 by founding part... More »
You Are Here, Voyager: This artist’s concept puts huge solar system distances in perspective. The scale bar is measured in astronomical units (AU), with each set distance beyond 1 AU representing 10 times the previous distance. Each AU is equal to the distance... More »
The Space Between: This artist’s concept shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft entering the space between stars. Interstellar space is dominated by plasma, ionized gas (illustrated here as brownish haze), that was thrown off by giant stars millions of years ago. Imag... More »
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a news conference today at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT), to discuss NASA’s Voyager mission. It is related to a paper to be published in... More »
Pasadena City College students can now access and check out 15 new MacBook Air laptops, 15 Lenovo PC laptops and five iPads in the Shatford Library. “We are interested in seeing how students use mobile technology to support their studies,†Pearl Ly, Interi... More »
The U.S. News and World Report released Tuesday shows that Caltech has retained the top 10 spot among the universities in the country and in the world. “What makes Caltech unique is our focus-on education, on science and engineering, but most of all, on giving... More »
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Deep Impact Mission Status Report Ground controllers have been unable to communicate with NASA’s long-lived Deep Impact spacecraft. Last communication with the spacecraft was on... More »
With the help of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that what was thought to be a large asteroid called Don Quixote is in fact a comet. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DLR/NAU For 30 years, a large near-Earth asteroid wandered its lone,... More »
An outcrop visible as light-toned streaks in the lower center of this image has been chosen as a place for NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity to study for a few days in September 2013. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity now has a view of ... More »
The latest image of sea surface heights in the Pacific Ocean from NASA’s Jason-2 satellite shows that the equatorial Pacific Ocean is now in its 16th month of being locked in what some call a neutral, or “La Nada” state. Image credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech/Ocean Su... More »
The locations of brown dwarfs discovered by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, and mapped by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, are shown in this diagram. The view is from a vantage point about 100 light-years away from the sun, looking back tow... More »
