High school seniors and new graduates from across Washington state were honored Friday, June 6, at STEM Signing Day, hosted ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen ...

A team of astrophysicists, led by Elias Most from Caltech, has modeled the milliseconds preceding the destruction of a neutron star by a black hole. Their work, published in The Astrophysical ...

PASADENA, CA – Caltech has recognized 13 faculty members with named professorships for early career and tenured faculty—the Institute’s most distinguished award. Among them are two Indian ...

Two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, filed an amicus brief, including six that joined the coalition in ...

Eighteen leading universities, including Ivy League schools and MIT, are backing Harvard in its legal battle against the ...

Rice, alongside 17 other research universities, requested a federal judge for permission to file an amicus curiae brief in support of Harvard University’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over ...

A group of 18 leading U.S. research universities, including Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins, asked a federal judge for permission ...

A crewed mission to Mars would rank among the most complex and costly undertakings in human history -- and US President ...

One of the papers, published last year, describes the simulated results of quakes on the surface of neutron stars before they ...

Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one another. Yet one of the most dramatic pairings ...

New calculations have revealed that the super-energetic jets produced by spinning black holes could be a source for elusive ...