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Imaging the Entire Radio Sky 24/7
05/11/2015

Imaging the Entire Radio Sky 24/7

Kimm Fesenmaier
The Owens Valley Long Wavelength Array is producing stunning videos of the radio sky.
NuSTAR Observations Hold Key to Supernova Mysteries
05/07/2015

NuSTAR Observations Hold Key to Supernova Mysteries

Ker Than
New findings support some of the fundamental theories and supercomputer model predictions made at Caltech about the lopsided inner workings of these explosive stellar giants.
Searching for Vibrations from the Big Bang
05/05/2015

Searching for Vibrations from the Big Bang

Douglas Smith
For a brief instant after the Big Bang, the universe flew apart at speeds faster than light; the gravitational waves from this expansion sowed the seeds of galaxies. Caltech professor Jamie Bock is hunting for an echo of these waves in the cosmic microwave background.
BICEP2 at the South Pole
Simon Wins International Mathematics Prize
04/29/2015

Simon Wins International Mathematics Prize

Lorinda Dajose
Barry Simon, the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, has been awarded the International János Bolyai Prize of Mathematics for 2015 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Barry Simon
JPL News: NuSTAR Captures Possible Beacons from Dead Stars
04/29/2015

JPL News: NuSTAR Captures Possible Beacons from Dead Stars

Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow of high-energy X-rays.
Theoretical Physicist Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
04/24/2015

Theoretical Physicist Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Lorinda Dajose
Sean Carroll, a research professor of physics, was awarded the mid-career fellowship, which recognizes those who have "demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."
"Combing" Through Terahertz Waves
04/21/2015

"Combing" Through Terahertz Waves

Kimm Fesenmaier
New device created by Caltech chemists opens the door for many new applications in a variety of fields from astronomy to chemistry and beyond.
JPL News: NASA Selects 2015 Carl Sagan Fellows
04/06/2015

JPL News: NASA Selects 2015 Carl Sagan Fellows

NASA has selected six scientists as recipients of the 2015 Carl Sagan Exoplanet Postdoctoral Fellowships.
Two Caltech Seniors Win Hertz Fellowships
04/06/2015

Two Caltech Seniors Win Hertz Fellowships

Douglas Smith
Caltech seniors Adam Jermyn and Charles Tschirhart have been named 2015 Hertz Fellowship winners. Selected from a pool of approximately 800 applicants, the awardees will receive up to five years of support for their graduate studies.
2015 Hertz Foundation Fellows Charles Tschirhart (left) and Adam Jermyn (right)
Caltech Space Challenge: Mission to an Asteroid in Lunar Orbit
04/02/2015

Caltech Space Challenge: Mission to an Asteroid in Lunar Orbit

Kimm Fesenmaier
Thirty two students from around the world converged on campus to test their space mission design skills. Their task? To design the best manned mission to an asteroid placed in orbit around the moon . . . in just five days.