Among the many notable moments in his life, “Reg” Murphy was kidnapped in 1974 while working as an editor in Atlanta.

JPL, which was founded in 1936 by California Institute of Technology researchers, already went through one round of mass ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

A cutting-edge telescope array is helping scientists to pinpoint the cosmic hotspots where strange radio signals originate.

For decades, we've thought we had a pretty good grasp of Uranus. The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is its magnetic ...

From all over the sky, the Universe is hurling mysterious signals. We don't really know what they are, or what's making them; ...

In addition to Jalan, Liu, Yang, and Mkhoyan, the team included Silo Guo from the University of Minnesota’s Department of ...

Researchers from MIT and University of Udine fabricated a transistor that uses ultrathin layers of gallium antimonide and ...

Researchers have created a new material that will be pivotal in making the next generation of high-power electronics faster, transparent and more efficient.

But it isn’t just Northwestern Kellogg that has embraced gender parity. In August, the California Institute of Technology ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

Lewis serves on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology, where he teaches environmental history and humanities ...