Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 5:35 pm
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft passes above Mars’ south pole in this artist’s concept. The spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since October 24, 2001. Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has successfully adjusted its orbital location to be in a... More »
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 12:00 pm
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space and a former Caltech trustee, passed away Monday, July 23, 2012. She was 61. Ride joined NASA in 1978 as part of the first astronaut class to admit women. In 1983, she made history as the first female astronaut a... More »
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 10:30 am
Chiara Daraio, professor of aeronautics and applied physics, and Christopher Hirata, professor of astrophysics, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), are 2012 winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This is t... More »
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 9:00 am
Caltech faculty Hirosi Ooguri (left) and Chris Hirata have received new funding from the Simons Foundation for their work in theoretical physics. For nearly 20 years, the Simons Foundation has worked to advance mathematics and the physical sciences through gra... More »
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 7:05 am
Extent of surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet on July 8, 2012 (left) and July 12, 2012 (right). Measurements from three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 percent of the ice sheet had undergone thawing at or near the surface. In just a few days, th... More »
Monday, July 23, 2012 | 6:05 pm
Sally Ride’s official astronaut portrait. She joined the astronaut corps in 1978. Image credit: NASA NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi released the following statement on Sally K. Ride, America’s first woman in space, who died on Monday, J... More »
Monday, July 23, 2012 | 12:05 pm
In this image from last year’s award ceremony, President Barack Obama greets the 2010 PECASE recipients in the East Room of the White House, Oct. 14, 2011. Image credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza President Obama has named six NASA individuals, i... More »
Sunday, July 22, 2012 | 11:30 am
Top left: A single jellyfish lappet, or appendage, was multiplied and rotated to form an eight-armed mosaic image suggesting the muscle geometry (shown in green.) Right: An illustration shows the different stages of analyzing a juvenile jellyfish in order to d... More »
Friday, July 20, 2012 | 9:00 am
The Caltech and UCLA have launched highly productive collaborations in cancer research and other areas of biomedicine in recent years, frequently through the Caltech lab of Nobel Laureate and President Emeritus David Baltimore. Now, an endowment established by... More »
Thursday, July 19, 2012 | 3:35 pm
Mike Ressler is the NASA project scientist for the MIRI instrument that will fly onboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This summer welcomed the delivery of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first flight instrument, the Mid-In... More »
Thursday, July 19, 2012 | 11:30 am
The powerful magnitude-8.6 earthquake that shook Sumatra on April 11, 2012, was a seismic standout for many reasons, not the least of which is that it was larger than scientists thought an earthquake of its type—an intraplate strike-slip quake—could ever be. N... More »
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 | 2:05 pm
These false color mosaics from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft capture lightning striking within the huge storm that encircled Saturn’s northern hemisphere for much of 2011. PASADENA, Calif. – Saturn was playing the lightning storm blues. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft h... More »