open search form

News RSS Icon Subscribe via RSS

Undergraduate Avinash Vadali Named 2026 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow
04/28/2026

Undergraduate Avinash Vadali Named 2026 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow

The merit-based honor, awarded to 30 students nationwide each year, recognizes outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants on the cusp of graduate study.

A headshot of a student on a dark blue background
LIGO-India Breaks Ground on New Observatory
04/23/2026

LIGO-India Breaks Ground on New Observatory

Katie Neith

New gravitational-wave observatory will become the fifth in the world and is poised to advance research in astrophysics, multi-messenger astronomy, fundamental physics, and more.

Photo from LIGO India groundbreaking event
Inside DiscoTech: Admitted Students Explore Caltech
04/22/2026

Inside DiscoTech: Admitted Students Explore Caltech

Sharon W. Tran

At DiscoTech, admitted students got a firsthand look at life at the Institute and a chance to see themselves in it.

A student leans over a table with robotic parts, listening to other students explain the parts.
Caltech Faculty Honored with New Horizons Prizes
04/20/2026

Caltech Faculty Honored with New Horizons Prizes

Whitney Clavin

Vesselin Dimitrov and Kimmy Wu honored for physics and math research

Vesselin and Kimmy headshots
Interstellar Comet Reveals Methane on Its Journey through Our Solar System
04/16/2026

Interstellar Comet Reveals Methane on Its Journey through Our Solar System

Lori Dajose

A new study examines the gas emissions from the third-ever detected interstellar object, comet 3I/ATLAS.

A white dot in a bright blue halo in a black background
Four Caltech Undergraduates Named Goldwater Scholars in 2026
04/16/2026

Four Caltech Undergraduates Named Goldwater Scholars in 2026

Sharon W. Tran

Third-years Avni Bansal, Aarya Riasati, Evan Zhang, and Rayhan Zirvi have been awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship.

Four headshots of students overlaying a colorful abstract background
This Caltech/JPL Invention Is the Reason There's a Camera in Your Pocket
04/06/2026

This Caltech/JPL Invention Is the Reason There's a Camera in Your Pocket

Andrew Moseman

In the 1990s, NASA sought smaller and lighter ways to send camera technology into space to take pictures of the solar system. Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech manages for NASA, had a spark of inspiration.

CMOS camera sensor video thumbnail
The Pasadena Math Pipeline
04/02/2026

The Pasadena Math Pipeline

Ann Motrunich

Thanks to a recent partnership between the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) and Caltech, as many as five high school juniors and seniors in the district's Math Academy now have the opportunity to join the Institute's first-year math core courses (Math 1 a, b, and c) each year.

Pasadena High School students Jacob Monson (left) and Lucas Kittle at Caltech.
Caltech Team Finds Useful Quantum Computers Could Be Built with as Few as 10,000 Qubits
03/31/2026

Caltech Team Finds Useful Quantum Computers Could Be Built with as Few as 10,000 Qubits

Whitney Clavin

Theoretical discovery opens the door to building quantum computers with significantly reduced resources

Artwork comparing old and new error-correction schemes in quantum computers. The qubits appear as dots, with blue being physical qubits and yellow being logical qubits.
Learning to Fly (with Ingenuity)
03/30/2026

Learning to Fly (with Ingenuity)

Sabrina Pirzada

When the Ingenuity helicopter lifted off the dusty surface of Mars on April 19, 2021, it marked an extraordinary accomplishment: the first powered flight on another planet. Here on Earth, graduate student Alejandro Stefan-Zavala watched in amazement, knowing he had helped give Ingenuity its first breath of wind.

At Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST), graduate student Alejandro Stefan-Zavala runs experiments to understand autonomous drone flight.