Caltech placed first nationally in four of the 17 metrics behind the ranking.

Being alive at all, he writes in The Atlantic, is “the most extraordinary stroke of good luck any of us will ever experience.”

The Caltech alumnus who helped turn satellite positioning into a business will receive the American Geographical Society’s O.M. Miller Cartographic Medal on September 15.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday. The system that will alert astronomers to fleeting discoveries in its images builds on years of work at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory.

Dodd joined Voyager as a sequence engineer in 1984 and has run the mission since 2010. A New York Times report goes inside the power gamble her team just pulled off on Voyager 2.

Alumni mentors and Caltech students met in West Los Angeles for an afternoon of career conversations, shared experience, and perspective on life after Caltech.

761 Techers shared meals, stories, and photos from a weekend of Caltech community.

Solar-powered tiles would manage their own heat and connect by fiber optics, with a first demonstration planned for 2027.

Fifty years ago, Viking 1 returned the first photograph from the surface of Mars. Al Hibbs (BS ’45, PhD ’55) narrated the moment for a live television audience, one of several Techers on the mission.