Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds the size of Earth – one of the smallest on record. The exoplanet candidate, known as UCF-1.01, orbits a star called GJ 436, which is located a me... More »
Huntington Memorial Hospital has been ranked among the top hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Â The hospital received the ranking in the orthopedics and urology specialties, and is considered the 18th best hospital in the nation for orthopedi... More »
The AAReST spacecraft as envisioned by the 2011 Ae105 class. [Credit: Ae105 class/Keith Patterson] Forget problem sets and exams. For their homework and final assignments, students in Caltech’s Aerospace Engineering course (Ae105) work on a proposed space miss... More »
The new amplifier consists of a superconducting material (niobium titanium nitride) coiled into a double spiral 16 millimeters in diameter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technolog... More »
An artist’s view of a Pioneer spacecraft heading into interstellar space. Both Pioneer 10 and 11 are on trajectories that will eventually take them out of our solar system. Image credit: NASA The unexpected slowing of NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft – th... More »
[Credit: Elaine Hsiao] Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) pioneered the study of the link between irregularities in the immune system and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism a decade ago. Since then, studies of postmortem br... More »
This morning, Caltech became one of the dozen new schools to join the online learning platform Coursera. Founded in the fall of 2011 by Stanford computer-science professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng to bring course content online for free, Coursera initially... More »
Artist’s concept of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Jason-3 spacecraft. Image credit: CNES, CLS NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., to launch the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administ... More »
Artist’s concepts of NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (left) and Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (right) spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Englewood, Colo., to launch the Soil Moisture Active Passive (S... More »
A “virtual rover experience” and a body-action video game are among the options for public participation in NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. | ›Click here to play along. As NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity prepares to land on ... More »
The area where NASA’s Curiosity rover will land on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT) has a geological diversity that scientists are eager to investigate, as seen in this false-color map based on data from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU N... More »
The new amplifier consists of a superconducting material (niobium titanium nitride) coiled into a double spiral 16 millimeters in diameter. [Credit: Peter Day] Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laborator... More »
