Thursday, June 14, 2012 | 12:00 pm
Caltech’s 118th annual commencement ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 15, 2012, at Beckman Mall. Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder and chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Tesla Motors, and the chair... More »
Thursday, June 14, 2012 | 8:35 am
The MIRI Cleanroom Huddle: Although it appears that these six contamination control engineers are in a huddle around the James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (or MIRI), they are conducting a receiving inspection. Engineers from the European Spa... More »
Thursday, June 14, 2012 | 7:30 am
Senior Katie Brennan visits a chip stand on Lake Malawi during a volunteer trip to Africa. She spent two of her undergrad summers working at a pediatric nutrition clinic there. Growing up, Katie Brennan didn’t have a lot of opportunities to travel. So when sh... More »
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | 5:05 pm
New Interactive Takes You ‘Under the Hood’ of NASA’s Salt-seeking Aquarius Mission Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Aquarius, NASA’s pioneering instrument to measure ocean surface salinity from orbit, launched a year ago (on June 10, 2011) aboard the Argentine S... More »
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | 4:35 pm
Saturn’s rings lie in the distance as the Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and its dark region called Shangri-La, east of the landing site of the Huygens Probe. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Cassini space... More »
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | 11:35 am
This artist’s conception shows a newly formed star surrounded by a swirling protoplanetary disk of dust and gas. Debris coalesces to create rocky ‘planetesimals’ that collide and grow to eventually form planets. The results of this study show that small planet... More »
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | 10:35 am
NASA’s NuSTAR and its rocket drop from the carrier “Stargazer” plane. Image Credit: Orbital Sciences Corporation. NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched into the morning skies over the central Pacific Ocean at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) Wedn... More »
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | 9:30 am
This morning, NASA’s NuSTAR telescope was launched into the low-Earth orbit from which it will begin exploring the high-energy X-ray universe to uncover the secrets of black holes, the dense remnants of dead stars, energetic cosmic explosions, and even our ver... More »
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 | 2:30 pm
The larger ellipse in this image represents the target area for MSL’s landing prior to early June 2012, when the project revised it to the smaller ellipse centered nearer to the foot of Mount Sharp. [Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS] Increased c... More »
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 | 12:00 am
When Caltech senior Arvind Kannan graduates on Friday, he will be one highly decorated Techer. During this academic year, the chemical engineering major racked up multiple honors that will support his graduate studies, including a Churchill Scholarship, a Hert... More »
Monday, June 11, 2012 | 11:05 am
This image shows changes in the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory project. The larger ellipse was the target area prior to early June 2012, when the project revised it to the smaller ellipse centered nearer to the f... More »
Monday, June 11, 2012 | 10:05 am
Artist’s concept of NuSTAR in orbit. NuSTAR has a 33-foot (10-meter) mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s NuSTAR mission is scheduled to launch... More »