A robotic truss builder that was conceived, designed, and built by Caltech researchers and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has successfully built a structure in ...

Outside of our solar system, scientists estimate that billions of worlds exist in the Milky Way galaxy alone. Called exoplanets, these celestial objects represent a chance to find other habitable ...

Thayer (Ted) Scudder, Caltech's only professor of anthropology for the latter half of the 20th century, passed away October 22 at the age of 96. He was regarded as a leading specialist on dams and ...

Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA, will expand aerospace research, hands-on training, and innovation on campus and at the Lab through two gifts totaling ...

To the casual observer, the starry sky offers a picture of tranquility. In reality, stars flare, explode, and occasionally crash into each other in cataclysmic collisions that bathe the universe in ...

Caltech has been selected by Meta as one of five academic partners across the US to receive access to their latest artificial intelligence (AI) models, along with research funding and collaboration ...

The breakthroughs accelerating the growth of California's quantum innovation ecosystem depend on fundamental science and engineering from Caltech and other academic institutions, according to Caltech ...

Kaushik Bhattacharya is an engineer and materials scientist, but he has always been fascinated by seashells. Part of the draw is the "beautiful" idea that even simple organisms like mollusks can ...

When a group of Caltech graduate students, researchers, and rocket enthusiasts began conducting experimental rocket-propulsion tests in Pasadena's Arroyo Seco on October 31, 1936, they had no idea ...

Peter Dervan: Dear Trustees, faculty, students, postdocs, staff and friends, Jackie and I never expected to be on stage today at the Inauguration of Caltech's next president, Ray Jayawardhana. We had ...

First light is the threshold moment in astronomy when a telescope makes its first observation and opens a new window to discovery. That same spirit of possibility defines the Caltech community.

On the evening of May 6, 1937, the largest aircraft ever built by mankind, a towering example of technological prowess, slipped through the stormy skies of New Jersey and prepared to land. The airship ...