Artist concept of GRAIL mission. Grail will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail. Image credit: NASA/JPL PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laborator... More »
Mark your calendars: The next TEDxCaltech will take place on Friday, January 18, 2013. The daylong event, titled TEDxCaltech: The Brain, will be held at Beckman Auditorium. Speakers, performers, and special guests will share their research, discoveries, and id... More »
This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Juno spacecraft during a burn of its main engine. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Eyes Earlier today, navigators and mission controllers for NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter watched their computer screens as their spacecraft s... More »
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrived at the giant asteroid Vesta on July 15, 2011 PDT (July 16, 2011 EDT) and is set to depart on Sept. 4, 2012 PDT (Sept. 5 EDT). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Larger view PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on track to b... More »
The Princeton Review has named Caltech to its “2013 Green Honor Roll.” Caltech is among 21 schools that received the highest possible score—99—in an analysis that looked at 806 institutions and rated them on environmentally related practices, policies, and aca... More »
Tropical Storm Isaac continues to bring high winds and heavy rainfall to much of the Gulf Coast. The strength of the storm is reflected in this infrared image from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA’s Aqua spacecraft. The colors represe... More »
Colorful Colossuses and Changing Hues A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in this natural color view of Titan and Saturn from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI Posing for portraits for NA... More »
Soil clinging to the right middle and rear wheels of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity can be seen in this image taken by the Curiosity’s Navigation Camera after the rover’s third drive on Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has set off ... More »
Curiosity Leaves Its Mark This image shows a close-up of track marks from the first test drive of NASA’s Curiosity rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Curiosity rover took its first test stroll Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012, and beamed back pictures of its ... More »
A Sky Chock-Full of Black Holes With its all-sky infrared survey, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has identified millions of quasar candidates. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission h... More »
Color-enhanced image of sea surface heights in the Gulf of Mexico, showing Hurricane Isaac’s path through the Gulf and around its warmest waters. Image credit: LSU Earth Scan Laboratory/U. of Colorado CCAR/NASA-JPL/Caltech › Larger view Seven years after the p... More »
The long-term decline of the global concentration of atmospheric ethane (blue line) has closely matched the long-term decline of the global growth rate of atmospheric methane (pink line). This association suggests that changes in fossil fuel use are responsibl... More »
