An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

An astrophysicist who discovered water on another planet beyond our solar system was fatally shot outside his home this week. 67-year-old Carl Grillmair had worked with Caltech’s Infrared Processing ...

The Alpha Centauri star system is just 4.2465 light-years away – a relative hop, skip, and a jump in a galaxy 100,000 light-years across. Wouldn't it be great to visit? Not just with a fleet of ...

A tight clump of four star clusters sits in the Perseus galaxy cluster, and at first glance it looks like nothing special. No ...

A man has been arrested in the early morning shooting death of a California Institute of Technology scientist who was killed ...

An accomplished CalTech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in the Antelope Valley.

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Looking through the atmosphere is like looking through a piece of old stained glass. The glass has defects that distort the image. The atmosphere also has defects that distort the image, but the ...

Scientists suspect that a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic neutron star, or "pulsar," dwells at the heart of the Milky Way.

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