In less than six months, NASA is set to launch Europa Clipper on a 1.6-billion-mile (2.6-billion-kilometer) voyage to Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa. Designed by and built at Jet Propulsion Laboratory here in Pasadena, Europa was created to conquer threats from t... More »
This Pi Day, March 14, in an upstairs workspace in Caltech’s W. M. Keck Engineering Laboratories building, eight robotic arms were showing off their stuff. Under the watchful eye of the undergraduate students who built and programmed them, each robot performed... More »
New research by a Caltech-led team of researchers is shedding light on the enigmatic behavior of supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs). These objects have challenged astronomers for decades, initially thou... More »
Fans at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concerts in Los Angeles made SoFi Stadium and the ground around it “ring like a bell” last August, creating measurable seismic activity during each song. So say scientists from Caltech and UCLA, who collected seismic data durin... More »
Global average sea level rose by about 0.3 inches (0.76 centimeters) from 2022 to 2023, a relatively large jump due mostly to a warming climate and the development of a strong El Niño. The total rise is equivalent to draining a quarter of Lake Superior into th... More »
Imagine that you are considering buying stock in a company. You know what its current value is, and you suspect that you could make a healthy return on your investment. But this stock is very volatile: some days up, some days down. Yes, you could make a lot of... More »
To test bold new ideas in space and on Earth with the potential to expand our understanding of Earth, the solar system, and beyond, The Brinson Foundation has donated $100 million to Caltech to create The Brinson Exploration Hub. The Brinson Exploration Hub w... More »
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena has awarded Airbus a contract for the design and construction of two spacecraft for the GRACE-C mission, a joint venture with the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The mission, slated for a late 202... More »
When NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) deliberately smashed into a 560-foot-wide (170-meter-wide) asteroid on Sept. 26, 2022, it made its mark in more ways than one. The demonstration showed that a kinetic impactor could deflect a hazardous astero... More »
Student-made contraptions of a metal and a little magic battled each other in front of cheering and dancing high schoolers at the annual Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition over the weekend, an event supported by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. O... More »
Leslie Livesay begins her tenure as deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday, March 18. She succeeds Larry D. James, who served as deputy director since September 2013. During a career spanning more than 37 years at JPL, Livesay has manage... More »
There were no brooms or bludgers in sight on the basketball court inside Caltech’s Scott Brown Gymnasium on March 8, but it was hard not to think of everyone’s favorite teenage wizard and his sporting pastime while watching the 39th annual ME72 Engineering Des... More »
