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Bursts of Star Formation in the Early Universe
(Thursday, March 14, 2013)
Astronomers Observe Planets Around Another Star Like Never Before
(Tuesday, March 12, 2013)
Interview with Father of the Quasar on 50th Anniversary
(Saturday, March 9, 2013)
A Window into Europa's Ocean Lies Right at the Surface
(Tuesday, March 5, 2013)
There Are At Least 100 Billion Planets in Our Galaxy
(Thursday, January 3, 2013)
Caltech Researchers Discover Most Primitive and Distant Galaxies Seen
(Wednesday, December 12, 2012)
Researchers reproduce plasma loops to help understand solar physics
(Tuesday, August 21, 2012)
Peering Into the Heart of a Supernova
(Thursday, July 12, 2012)
Expert Analysis of Higgs Boson Results
(Wednesday, July 4, 2012)
Caltech Scientists Find New Primitive Mineral in Meteorite
(Wednesday, June 27, 2012)
Fermi Helps Scientists Narrow Search for Dark Matter
(Friday, April 6, 2012)
Experiment Observes Elusive Neutrino Transformation
(Thursday, March 8, 2012)
Elon Musk to Deliver Caltech Commencement Address
(Monday, January 16, 2012)
Astronomers Find Three Smallest Planets Outside Solar System
(Thursday, January 12, 2012)
New Computer Model Explains Lakes and Storms on Titan
(Wednesday, January 4, 2012)
More clues in the hunt for the Higgs
(Thursday, December 15, 2011)
Caltech-Led Team of Astronomers Finds 18 New Planets
(Monday, December 5, 2011)
Oceans of Water in a Planet-Forming Disk
(Friday, October 21, 2011)
Researchers Take Temperature of Mars's Past
(Wednesday, October 12, 2011)
Astronomers find ice and possibly methane on Snow White, a distant dwarf planet
(Tuesday, August 23, 2011)
A Hint of Higgs - Update from the LHC
(Tuesday, August 16, 2011)
Caltech-Led Astronomers Discover the Largest and Most Distant Reservoir of Water Yet
(Friday, July 22, 2011)
Astronomers Find a New Class of Stellar Explosions
(Thursday, June 9, 2011)
Caltech-led team debunks theory on end of 'Snowball Earth' ice age
(Sunday, June 5, 2011)
Richard Ellis Awarded Gold Medal in Astronomy
(Friday, January 14, 2011)
Close-Knit Pairs of Massive Black Holes
(Thursday, January 13, 2011)
NRC Strongly Endorses LISA Gravitational-Wave Mission
(Thursday, August 19, 2010)
Planets Found in Unusually Intimate Dance Around Dying Star
(Tuesday, August 3, 2010)
Caltech Team Finds Evidence of Water in Moon Minerals
(Wednesday, July 21, 2010)
Caltech scientists discover fog on Titan
(Friday, December 18, 2009)
NASA Cassini Radar Observes Seasonal Change in Titan's North Pole
(Tuesday, October 6, 2009)
Caltech and IBM scientists use self-assembled DNA scaffolding to build tiny circuit boards
(Tuesday, August 18, 2009)
Caltech Scientists Discover Storms in the Tropics of Titan
(Wednesday, August 12, 2009)
Caltech: Unique Sky Survey Brings New Objects into Focus
(Monday, June 15, 2009)
Caltech Scientists Predict Greater Longevity for Planets with Life
(Friday, June 12, 2009)
Caltech visiting associate champions the study of solar eclipses in the modern era
(Thursday, June 11, 2009)
Caltech researchers interpret asymmetry in early universe
(Wednesday, December 17, 2008)
Caltech Researchers Find Ancient Climate Cycles Recorded in Mars Rocks
(Thursday, December 4, 2008)
Caltech geobiologists discover unique 'magnetic death star' fossil
(Thursday, October 23, 2008)
Scientist proposes explanation for puzzling property of night-shining clouds at the edge of space
(Friday, September 26, 2008)
Caltech Astronomers Describe the Bar Scene at the Beginning of the Universe
(Wednesday, July 30, 2008)
Giant impact explains Mars dichotomy
(Wednesday, June 25, 2008)
Caltech Helps Open the Universe in "WorldWide Telescope"
(Friday, June 6, 2008)
LIGO observations probe the dynamics of the crab pulsar
(Wednesday, June 4, 2008)
Advanced LIGO Project Funded by National Science Foundation
(Wednesday, April 2, 2008)
Water Vapor Detected in Protoplanetary Disks
(Tuesday, March 18, 2008)
U.S. Experiment Takes the Lead in the Competitive Race to Find Dark Matter
(Wednesday, February 27, 2008)
Keck Gives Caltech $24 Million for Space Institute
(Wednesday, January 23, 2008)
Physicist Hirosi Ooguri Awarded for Novel Research on Black Holes
(Saturday, January 12, 2008)
LIGO Sheds Light on Cosmic Event
(Saturday, January 12, 2008)
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Commits $200 Million Support for Thirty-Meter Telescope
(Friday, December 7, 2007)
Caltech's Ingersoll Receives Achievement Award
(Wednesday, October 10, 2007)
Small Explorer Mission to Detect Black Holes Scheduled for 2011 Launch
(Friday, September 21, 2007)
Caltech Astronomers Obtain Sharpest-Ever Pictures of the Heavens
(Friday, September 7, 2007)
Thirty-Meter Telescope Project Receives $15 Million from Moore Foundation
(Wednesday, August 22, 2007)
Palomar Observatory's Sky Survey is the Cosmic Canvas in the New Google Sky
(Wednesday, August 22, 2007)
Caltech Summer Camp Helps Kids Envision City on Mars
(Wednesday, August 1, 2007)
International Consortium Is Created to Build World's Largest Submillimeter Telescope
(Thursday, July 26, 2007)
Caltech: Job Opening for "Amazing Science Writer"
(Tuesday, July 24, 2007)
Astronomers Claim to Find the Most Distant Known Galaxies
(Tuesday, July 10, 2007)
The Dwarf Planet Known as Eris is More Massive than Pluto, New Data Shows
(Friday, June 15, 2007)
Caltech and Berkeley Astronomers Identify a New Class of Cosmic Explosions
(Thursday, May 24, 2007)
Some Earth-like Worlds May Have Foliage of Colors Other Than Green, Researchers Say
(Wednesday, April 11, 2007)
Caltech's Planet Hunter Mike Brown Wins Annual Feynman Prize for Teaching
(Sunday, April 8, 2007)
Sally Ride Science Festival for Girls Returns to Caltech
(Monday, March 19, 2007)
Kuiper-belt Object Was Broken up by Massive Impact 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Study Shows
(Wednesday, March 14, 2007)
Astronomers Puzzled by Spectra of Transiting Planet Orbiting Nearby Star
(Wednesday, February 21, 2007)
LIGO and Virgo Join Forces In Search for Gravitational Waves
(Tuesday, February 13, 2007)
New Type of Black-Hole Explosion Has Astrophysicists Wondering About Its Origin
(Wednesday, December 20, 2006)
Geologists Provide New Evidence for Reason Behind Rise of Life in Cambrian Period
(Sunday, December 17, 2006)
Geobiologists Solve "Catch-22 Problem" Concerning the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen
(Wednesday, November 29, 2006)
New Window of Universe Opens at Griffith; Unprecedented Image from Palomar
(Tuesday, October 3, 2006)
Planets Prefer Safe Neighborhoods
(Tuesday, October 3, 2006)
"Champagne Supernova" Challenges Ideas about How Supernovae Work
(Wednesday, September 20, 2006)
Jupiter-Sized Transiting Planet Found by Astronomers Using Novel Telescope Network
(Sunday, September 10, 2006)
Xena Awarded "Dwarf Planet" Status, IAU Rules; Solar System Now Has Eight "Classical" Planets
(Thursday, August 24, 2006)
Caltech Experts Available to Comment on IAU Planet Decision
(Thursday, August 24, 2006)
NSF-Funded Wireless Network Leads Palomar Observatory Astronomers to Major Discoveries
(Thursday, August 10, 2006)
2MASS Team Wins Muhlmann Award from Astronomy Society of the Pacific
(Tuesday, May 23, 2006)
Palomar Observes Broken Comet
(Monday, May 15, 2006)
Moore Foundation Awards Multiple Grants to California Institute of Technology
(Friday, April 14, 2006)
Hubble Space Telescope Obtains Best-Ever Size Measurement of Xena; Still Larger Than Pluto
(Wednesday, April 12, 2006)
Experimental Particle Physicist Jay Marx Named Executive Director of LIGO
(Wednesday, March 29, 2006)
Astronomers Using NASA's Spitzer Report Unprecedented Double Helix Nebula Near Center of the Milky Way
(Wednesday, March 22, 2006)
Astronomers Discover a River of Stars Streaming Across the Northern Sky
(Wednesday, March 15, 2006)
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope Image: A Shocking Surprise in Stephan's Quintet
(Saturday, March 4, 2006)
Study of 2004 Tsunami Disaster Forces Rethinking of Theory of Giant Earthquakes
(Wednesday, March 1, 2006)
LIGO Kicks into High Gear for Gravitational-Wave Search with 18-Month Observation Run
(Tuesday, February 28, 2006)
Dust Found in Earth Sediment Traced to Breakup of the Asteroid Veritas 8.2 Million Years Ago
(Wednesday, February 1, 2006)
Astrophysical Device Will Sniff Out Terrorism
(Friday, January 20, 2006)
Quasar Study Provides Insights into Composition of the Stars That Ended the "Dark Ages"
(Friday, January 13, 2006)
Kuiper Belt Moons Are Starting to Seem Typical
(Friday, January 13, 2006)
New Study of Supernovae May Absolve Einstein of His Self-Confessed "Biggest Blunder"
(Tuesday, November 22, 2005)
Geologists Uncover New Evidence About the Rise of Oxygen
(Wednesday, October 26, 2005)
NASA Grant Will Fund New Research on Mars with the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers
(Thursday, October 20, 2005)
Interdisciplinary Scientists Propose Paradigm Shift in Robotic Space Exploration
(Monday, October 17, 2005)
Tenth Planet Has a Moon
(Saturday, October 1, 2005)
Most Distant Explosion in Universe Detected; Smashes Previous Record
(Tuesday, September 13, 2005)
Work Continues on the Solar System's Three Recently Discovered Objects
(Friday, September 9, 2005)
Deep Impact: During and After Impact
(Friday, July 22, 2005)
Mars Has Been in the Deep Freeze for the Past Four Billion Years, Study Shows
(Thursday, July 21, 2005)
Researchers devise plasma experiment that shows how astrophysical jets are formed
(Wednesday, June 29, 2005)
Palomar Observatory to Hold Open House June 25
(Sunday, June 12, 2005)
Caltech Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman Honored on 2005 U.S. Commemorative Stamp
(Thursday, May 5, 2005)
Caltech Receives $2.5 Million to Further Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy
(Saturday, February 5, 2005)
Hard X-Ray telescope up for final NASA review; project will be led by Caltech's Fiona Harrison
(Saturday, February 5, 2005)
More Stormy Weather on Titan
(Wednesday, December 22, 2004)
New Home for Astronomers
(Thursday, November 25, 2004)
Laser Points to the Future at Palomar
(Saturday, November 6, 2004)
Maverick Scientist and Instrument Builder James Westphal Dies
(Wednesday, September 15, 2004)
Geobiologists create novel method for studying ancient life forms
(Saturday, August 28, 2004)
Hints on Photographing the Perseid Meteor Shower the Night of Wednesday, August 11
(Wednesday, August 11, 2004)
Astronomers say the nearby gamma-ray burst of December 3 was a new type of cosmic explosion
(Wednesday, August 4, 2004)
Robert Phillip Sharp Dies
(Friday, May 28, 2004)
CARMA Groundbreaking Set for March 27
(Thursday, March 25, 2004)
Most Distant Object in Solar System Discovered by NASA Researchers
(Monday, March 15, 2004)
Planetary scientists find planetoid in Kuiper Belt; could be biggest yet discovered
(Friday, February 20, 2004)
Astronomers measure distance to star celebrated in ancient literature and legend
(Thursday, January 22, 2004)
Gamma-ray Bursts, X-ray Flashes, and Certain Supernovae Are Related
(Wednesday, November 12, 2003)
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards $17.5 million for Thirty-Meter Telescope plans
(Friday, October 17, 2003)
Old Caltech Telescope Yields New Science
(Tuesday, September 23, 2003)
New Sky Survey Begins at Palomar Observatory
(Saturday, August 2, 2003)
Gravity Variations Predict Earthquake Behavior
(Saturday, August 2, 2003)
Astronomers "weigh" pulsar's planets
(Thursday, May 29, 2003)
Caltech Planetary Scientist Has 'Modest Proposal' For Sending Probe To Earth's Core
(Wednesday, May 14, 2003)
Einstein Archives to Be Available Online
(Wednesday, May 14, 2003)
Astronomers find new evidence about universe's heaviest phase of star formation
(Thursday, April 17, 2003)
Caltech Names Distinguished Alumni
(Thursday, April 17, 2003)
Science begins for LIGO in quest to detect gravitational waves
(Saturday, April 12, 2003)
Astronaut Sally Ride to Speak on Piquing Interest in Science
(Wednesday, March 12, 2003)
The Martian polar caps are almost entirely water ice
(Thursday, February 13, 2003)
Nanodevice breaks 1-GHz barrier
(Wednesday, January 29, 2003)
Caltech Partners with Local High Schools to Measure Subatomic Shrapnel
(Tuesday, January 28, 2003)
Clouds Discovered on Saturn's Moon Titan
(Wednesday, December 18, 2002)
New Theory Accounts for Existence of Binaries in Kuiper Belt
(Friday, December 13, 2002)
Earthbound experiment confirms theory accounting for sun's scarcity of neutrinos
(Friday, December 6, 2002)
Caltech astronomer Jesse Greenstein dies; was early investigator of quasars, white dwarfs
(Thursday, October 24, 2002)
The Planet that Wasn't There
(Wednesday, October 16, 2002)
Caltech Astronomers Unveil Powerful New Infrared Camera for the 200-Inch Hale Telescope
(Wednesday, October 16, 2002)
Caltech planetary scientists find largest object in solar system since Pluto's 1930 discovery
(Monday, October 7, 2002)
David Baltimore Honored at Pasadena Museum of History's Celestial Ball
(Saturday, September 21, 2002)
Astronomers discover the strongest known magnet in the universe
(Wednesday, June 5, 2002)
Astrophysicists announce surprising discovery of extremely rare molecule in interstellar space
(Thursday, May 30, 2002)
Gamma-ray bursts are caused by explosive death of massive stars, new study reveals
(Thursday, May 16, 2002)
Researchers find evidence for mechanism that creates near-Earth binary asteroids
(Thursday, April 11, 2002)
Researchers find new clue why Martian water is found on the north pole, not the south
(Thursday, March 21, 2002)
Caltech Astronomer to Discuss the Search for Planets Outside Our Solar System
(Thursday, March 14, 2002)
Mars Atmospheric Chemistry and Astrobiology (MACA) Workshop
(Thursday, October 25, 2001)
Mars Global Surveyor Update at Caltech
(Thursday, October 4, 2001)
Brightest Quasars Inhabit Galaxies with Star-Forming Gas Clouds, Scientists Discover
(Wednesday, June 6, 2001)
Lancaster Area High Schoolers Build Satellite Mockup with Caltech Scholar's Help
(Tuesday, May 22, 2001)
Life rebounded quickly after collision 65 million years ago that wiped out dinosaurs
(Thursday, March 8, 2001)
Caltech Receives Funding to Establish Network of Cosmic-Ray Detectors in High Schools
(Thursday, February 8, 2001)
Astronomers improve "cosmic yardstick" by measuring distance to star in Gemini with Palomar Testbed Interferometer
(Wednesday, September 27, 2000)
Snowball Earth episode 2.4 billion years ago was hard on life, but good for modern industrial economy, research show
(Monday, February 14, 2000)
Caltech physicists achieve first bona fide quantum teleportation
(Thursday, October 22, 1998)