From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The International Space Station's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (Dextre) was employed to install the Earth Surface ...

Caltech is a place unlike any other, an Institute that is truly “small but mighty.” Its small size and the expertise of its ...

The test followed a rescue style script, with X1 acting as a rapid first responder that could survey the scene before human ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of a location nicknamed “Mont Musard” on Sept. 8, 2025. Made up of three images, the panorama also captures another region, “Lac de Charmes,” where ...

Two autonomous robots combine walking, flying, and rolling in rescue missions that would be too risky for humans.

Valles Marineris in imagery captured the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Global topography: NASA/GSFC CTX global mosaic: NASA/MSSS/Caltech/ CTX topography: NASA/MSSS/USGS HiRISE: NASA/U.Arizona/USGS/Amaz ...

The gift will be used to endow the nearly-100-year-old department, which will be renamed the Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa ...

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has received a $50 million donation from Trustee Lynn Booth and Life Member ...

The California Institute of Technology has received a $50 million commitment from Caltech trustees Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa ...

After nearly five years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover's durability and gathering new science ...