Michael Wong, a Caltech graduate student in planetary science, always wanted to boldly go where no one has gone before, but he never expected to end up on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. The ...

This article was produced by Capital & Main, an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues. It is co-published here with permission. Ranjani ...

You've created a wildly successful webcomic about life in academia that is followed avidly by readers all around the world. You want to do a film adaptation. Who you gonna call? If you're Jorge Cham, ...

PASADENA – Nearly 600 Caltech graduates earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees Friday, including one of the largest classes of Ph.D. students the science and engineering research ...

Follow your curiosity with Science Journeys, a new on-demand video lecture series produced by Caltech's Public Programming department. In each Science Journey, a current graduate student discusses ...

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana will become the Caltech president. He will join the campus from Johns Hopkins University, where he is provost.

Caltech suspended an astrophysics professor for a year without pay and restricted his access to the campus and students following an investigation into complaints of discrimination and harassment. In ...

A 38-year-old Caltech professor fired his 22-year-old female graduate student because he was in love with her, according to a BuzzFeed investigation.Christian Ott, 38, is an astrophysics professor at ...