Mars has become one of the most intensely studied destinations in planetary science, with rovers, landers, and orbiters ...

A new California Institute of Technology discovery could make creating medicines and other materials less toxic and at a lower cost. The recent study from the institute suggests nature can incorporate ...

PASADENA >> A fitting end for Earth Day Tuesday, a group of experts gathered to discuss what does happen, what could happen, and ultimately what will happen when a major earthquake rattles the ...

Billion-year life extension for Earth also doubles the odds that advanced life will be found elsewhere in the universe PASADENA, Calif.— Roughly a billion years from now, the ever-increasing radiation ...

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are creating a new microscope technology they hope will empirically determine if life exists beyond our planet. The device is called a ...

An annual campus tradition, Caltech's MACH 33 Science Play Festival brings three packed days of plays about the universe's ...