The Latest Breaking News from Caltech

He wanted to save mankind, and this is the thanks he got.

Renowned Caltech scientist and astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, 67, was found dead outside his Los Angeles County home in a remote area that Grillmair chose to watch stars at night. Grillmair is credited with the discovery of galactic streams. The shooting took place Monday when the cops responded to the reports…

Her advisor warned she was taking her AI idea “way too far.” But Fei-Fei Li had already learned, as a teenager, how far grit could take her.

Developed at Caltech, a new robot is a humanoid that can launch an M4 drone, switching between different modes of motion, with wheels that can become rotors.

A new system, made by splitting a laser beam into 12,000 tweezers and trapping 6,100 neutral atom qubits, hit new heights for coherence times.

Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a decades-old Stephen Hawking theory.

A study of March's Myanmar earthquake has found that strike-slip faults don't necessarily repeat past behavior, meaning the San Andreas fault could unleash a bigger quake than any seen before.

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be orbited in turn by a habitable moon that could support life, just like in the "Avatar" movies.

The confirmation of the gas giant planet would mark a milestone as the closest planet to Earth that orbits in a habitable zone of a star like the sun