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Keck Cosmic Web Imager Achieves "First Light"
04/14/2017

Keck Cosmic Web Imager Achieves "First Light"

Whitney Clavin
The Caltech-built Keck Cosmic Web Imager has taken its first look at the cosmos.
W.M. Keck Observatory
Habitable Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets?
04/12/2017

Habitable Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets?

Caltech postdoctoral scholar Siegfried Eggl modeled planets in double-star systems to find out if they could be habitable.
artist's concept
Exploring Plasma Wave Physics
04/06/2017

Exploring Plasma Wave Physics

A new technique helped NASA spacecraft detect a previously unseen phenomenon in the plasma in the earth's magnetosphere.
NASA visualization
Next Steps to Finding Life Elsewhere
03/29/2017

Next Steps to Finding Life Elsewhere

Whitney Clavin
In the Exoplanet Technology Laboratory, researchers have been developing new ways to search exoplanets for biosignatures.
TMT
Seeing Other Worlds: Watson Lecture Preview
03/23/2017

Seeing Other Worlds: Watson Lecture Preview

Lorinda Dajose
Astronomer Dimitri Mawet will give the April Watson Lecture about directly imaging planets outside of our solar system.
Dimitri Mawet
Temperature Swings of Black Hole Winds
03/01/2017

Temperature Swings of Black Hole Winds

Lorinda Dajose
Rapidly varying temperatures have been measured on the ultrafast streams of gas emanating from around a black hole.
Artist rendition of a black hole with X-rays and winds.
Supersonic Gas Jets Blast Off
02/28/2017

Supersonic Gas Jets Blast Off

Lorinda Dajose
A new discovery about jets of gas bursting from the surface of moons throughout the solar system.
still image from YouTube video
NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star
02/22/2017

NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.
Abstract Concept of TRAPPIST-1 System
Long Haul, Towering Discovery
02/14/2017

Long Haul, Towering Discovery

Kip Thorne talks about the years leading up to LIGO’s first detection of gravitational waves.
Kip Thorne
JPL News: Spitzer Hears Stellar "Heartbeat"
02/14/2017

JPL News: Spitzer Hears Stellar "Heartbeat"

A planet and a star are having a tumultuous romance that can be detected from 370 light-years away.
illustration of a blue planet orbiting a yellow sun
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