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Two colossal black holes, each weighing more than 100 times our Sun's mass, spiraled into each other across the cosmos and merged in a violent collision that created the most massive black hole ever detected through gravitational waves.
Jul 15, 2025
A crucial ocean current system that regulates Earth's climate will weaken moderately over the next 75 years but won't experience the dramatic collapse predicted by some climate models, according to new research from Caltech.
May 29, 2025
Jupiter was a vastly different world in its youth—roughly twice as large as today and wielding a magnetic field 50 times more powerful than its current strength.
May 22, 2025
A team of astronomers has stumbled upon a humungous spiral galaxy, about five times more massive than our Milky Way galaxy and covering an area two times as big, making it among the largest known galaxies.
Mar 31, 2025
Soon, a new cone-shaped spacecraft will launch into space on a mission to chart the skies like never before.
Feb 25, 2025
Scientists at Caltech have developed a breakthrough technology that could revolutionize healthcare monitoring: printable nanoparticle sensors that can continuously track everything from vitamins to cancer drugs through a person's sweat.
Feb 3, 2025
Caltech researchers have discovered that our thought processes operate at a mere 10 bits per second—millions of times slower than our sensory systems' ability to gather information.
Dec 19, 2024
On a crisp October morning, NASA's Europa Clipper mission embarked on an ambitious journey that could fundamentally change our understanding of life's potential in our cosmic neighborhood.
Nov 29, 2024
Caltech researchers have developed an innovative algorithm that allows neural networks to be updated with new information without losing previously acquired knowledge, mimicking the flexibility of biological brains.
Oct 14, 2024
Researchers at Caltech have developed an innovative method to measure soil moisture in the critical zone between the surface and underground aquifers.
Aug 5, 2024
Astronomers have captured a rare glimpse into the behavior of dark matter during a massive collision between two galaxy clusters billions of light-years from Earth.
Jul 25, 2024
Most stars in our universe come in pairs. While our own Sun is a loner, many stars like our Sun orbit similar stars, while a host of other exotic pairings between stars and cosmic orbs pepper the universe.
Jul 16, 2024
A team of researchers led by Caltech has shed new light on a mysterious class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs). These active galaxies…
Mar 26, 2024
When our Sun was a young star, 4.56 billion years ago, what is now our solar system was just a disk of rocky dust and gas.
Jan 9, 2024
