This new image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light as seen by the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions, and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/ST... More »
This enormous section of the Milky Way galaxy is a mosaic of images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus are featured in this 1,000-square degree expanse. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA A new,... More »
Color-enhanced UAVSAR interferogram images of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, taken between January 2010 and May 2011. The images show the east rift zone of Kilauea, about 6 miles (9.7 kilometers) from the summit caldera. Lava has been flowing from the east rift zon... More »
This is an artist’s concept of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during its cruise phase between launch and final approach to Mars. The spacecraft includes a disc-shaped cruise stage (on the left) attached to the aeroshell. The spacecraft’s rover (Curi... More »
Joshua S. Friedman (left) and Richmond A. Wolf Two business leaders, Joshua S. Friedman and Richmond A. Wolf, have been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Caltech. Friedman will serve on the board as a trustee and Wolf (MS ’94, PhD ’97) as a young alumni ... More »
The second of NASA’s two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has successfully completed its planned main engine burn and is now in lunar orbit. Working together, GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B will study the moon as never before. “NASA greets t... More »
Although many mental illnesses are uniquely human, animals sometimes exhibit abnormal behaviors similar to those seen in humans with psychological disorders. Such behaviors are called endophenotypes. Researchers at the Caltech discovered that mice lacking a ge... More »
Astronomers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are ruling out the possibility that the 2005 YU55 asteroid is likely to fall down on Earth within the next century. But it will get close next week. The rocky object was reported earlier to be com... More »
The path to science glory leads to Pasadena for 15 students contending for the year’s top teen science prize. The first weekend in November, these young innovators will compete for the highest science honor awarded to American high school students when the S... More »
Jacqueline K. Barton, the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech—a leader in studies of the chemistry of DNA—has been named one of seven recipients of the 2011 Na... More »
The panoramic camera and navigation camera of JPL’s Opportunity Mars rover captured an image of a memorial to victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center towers on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy on Mars. The memorial, made from alu... More »
The sky is gray, but you’re not sure if the clouds will clear or rain will pour. Do you grab an umbrella when you go outside? Decisions like this are filled with ambiguity, and we’re faced with them every day, whether picking stocks or choosing the sweetest wa... More »
