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.

The mechanical engineer (BS ’19) spent eight years volunteering with unhoused neighbors before turning her mass-manufacturing training on the housing shortage.

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana began his term as Caltech’s 10th president on July 1. Read his letter to the community, watch his message, and see his Q&A.

Chee-Huat Linus Eng, Anna Ho, and Christina V. Theodoris are among 28 early-career researchers recognized.

Schmidt Sciences has funded construction of the Deep Synoptic array, which will survey the sky 100 times faster than any radio telescope before it.