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- 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) - Planets Prefer Safe Neighborhoods
(Tuesday, October 3, 2006) - New Window of Universe Opens at Griffith; Unprecedented Image from Palomar
(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) - Caltech Experts Available to Comment on IAU Planet Decision
(Thursday, August 24, 2006) - Xena Awarded "Dwarf Planet" Status, IAU Rules; Solar System Now Has Eight "Classical" Planets
(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) - Hard X-Ray telescope up for final NASA review; project will be led by Caltech's Fiona Harrison
(Saturday, February 5, 2005) - Caltech Receives $2.5 Million to Further Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy
(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) - Einstein Archives to Be Available Online
(Wednesday, May 14, 2003) - Caltech Planetary Scientist Has 'Modest Proposal' For Sending Probe To Earth's Core
(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) - Caltech Astronomers Unveil Powerful New Infrared Camera for the 200-Inch Hale Telescope
(Wednesday, October 16, 2002) - The Planet that Wasn't There
(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
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