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02/26/2018

New Evidence for Galactic Eviction

Astronomers using the Keck Observatory have discovered that certain groups of stars were kicked out from the flat disk of our galaxy.

02/15/2018

Three Caltech Faculty Members Win Sloan Fellowships

Whitney Clavin

Three members of the Caltech faculty are among this year's Sloan Research Fellows.

02/05/2018

Compositions of TRAPPIST-1 Planets

A new study offers the best measurements yet of the densities of the TRAPPIST-1 planets.

Illustration of seven TRAPPIST-1 planets

02/01/2018

Tabletop Approach to Probing Fundamental Laws of Physics

Whitney Clavin

Nick Hutzler talks about what drew him to Caltech—first as an undergraduate and now more than 10 years later as new faculty.

01/24/2018

Heartbeat Stars and Pulsating Planets

Jim Fuller talks about movies he has developed to better understand the pulsations of planets and stars.

01/11/2018

Flat Metasurface Optics: Watson Lecture Preview

Andrei Faraon will discuss how nanotechnology enables new ways to make optical components.

01/11/2018

Citizen Scientists Discover Five-Planet System

Lorinda Dajose

A group of 10,000 citizen scientists from all over the world helped to identify signals from five planets orbiting a distant star.

Artist's visualization of an exoplanetary system

01/05/2018

Caltech Instrument Achieves "First Light"

A new Caltech-built instrument at Keck Observatory has captured its first spectral image.

12/20/2017

Neutron Star Jet Hits a Roadblock

Whitney Clavin

Light detected from a neutron star merger is not from a super-fast jet as previously suspected, but rather a bubble-like cocoon.

12/08/2017

Stripes and the Riddle of Superconductivity

Whitney Clavin

Striped patterns of electrical charges may help crack mystery of high-temperature superconducting materials.

Illustration shows the “rivers of charge”

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