Today we celebrate the graduating students of the Caltech Seismological Laboratory! Congratulations to Dr. Jiaqi Fang, Dr. Jack Wilding, and Dr. Yaozhong Shi! We are proud of all you have accomplished and grateful for the curiosity, dedication, and enthusiasm that you brought to the Lab. As one journey ends and you take the next steps to begin another, we look forward to seeing the discoveries you make, challenges you tackle, and the impact you will have on science and society. Congrats Class of 2026! Remember on your exciting new adventures that you will always be part of the Seismo Lab family! @caltech #Caltech2026 #SeismoLab

Congrats Etienne, Jack, Willy and Ish on graduating from @caltech today! #caltech2026 #caltech

Congratulations @minorthird5 for your PhD in Astrophysics! So proud of you!!! @Caltech #Caltech2026

Join us as we celebrate our graduates' accomplishments and look forward with pride and anticipation to the impact they will make in the world. commencement.caltech.edu/wat…

#SoCaltech: Meet Caltech’s 2026 Graduates Eleven of Caltech’s 2026 graduates discuss their achievements, challenges, and lessons learned during their time at the Institute. magazine.caltech.edu/post/so…

Caltech Readies to Build World's Most Sensitive Radio Telescope. Schmidt Sciences has greenlit the construction of the @deepsynoptic, a game changer for radio astronomy. caltech.edu/about/news/calte…

Neptune acts like a shepherd for the outer solar system, gravitationally scattering distant asteroids known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Understanding Neptune's history gives important clues to how the rest of the solar system evolved to its present state. caltech.edu/about/news/the-o…

Thomas F. Rosenbaum, the ninth president of Caltech, will retire on June 30, 2026. As we approach the end of our academic school year, we’d like to take this time to thank him for his advancements, contributions, and leadership. Thank you, Mr. President!

The members of the 2026 class of DAAs—first announced at Caltech's 89th Annual Seminar Day on May 16—join the 280 individuals who have been named since the award's inception in 1966. caltech.edu/about/news/calte…

The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech today announced the 2026 class of Brown Investigators. The cohort comprises eight distinguished mid-career faculty working on fundamental challenges in the physical sciences. caltech.edu/about/news/calte…

Jonas C. Peters, Bren Professor of Chemistry and director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute (RSI) at Caltech, has been elected one of 42 new members of the American Philosophical Society (APS) this year. caltech.edu/about/news/jonas…

Caltech’s 132nd Commencement exercises will take place on Friday, June 12, 2026, at 10 a.m. on Beckman Mall. Utilize #Caltech2026 and tag @caltechedu for all related posts to be featured on our social media channels as we collectively celebrate our distinguished graduates!

As a staff scientist on the SRL team for nearly 30 years now, Cohen has helped design and calibrate numerous instruments to measure solar energetic particles (SEPs), a type of cosmic ray released by the Sun during solar flares and coronal mass ejections. caltech.edu/about/news/space…

New theoretical work shows that string theory is uniquely derived from basic assumptions about the universe. caltech.edu/about/news/strin…

🎙️Friday! Could Planet Nine finally be found this year? We sit down with @Caltech planetary scientist Konstantin Batygin, co-creator of the Planet Nine hypothesis, to discuss the evidence and what it could mean for our understanding of the solar system. youtube.com/watch?v=nQUIu1X4…

The jump from one cell to many may have started with physics: crowding and compression can push cells toward a few recurring shapes that scale into tissues. @Caltech @NatureBiotech phys.org/news/2026-06-story-…

On May 6, the Hertz Foundation announced this year's cohort of 19 Hertz Fellows. Among them are fourth-year undergraduate Sam Foxman and incoming graduate student Nikhil Seshadri. caltech.edu/about/news/calte…

Karthish Manthiram's lab has figured out how to drive a series of chemical reactions that produce the epoxide propylene oxide using a much greener process and the inexpensive, Earth-abundant catalyst, lanthanum cobaltite. caltech.edu/about/news/a-gre…

Honourable Mention for the ASI AstroSat Prize is awarded to Dr. Gaurav Waratkar @GauravWaratkar of @iitbombay & @Caltech for the paper "Bright in the Black: Searching for EM Counterparts to Grav-wave Candidates in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observation Runs with AstroSat-CZTI" #ASI2026

Four JPL-built propulsive drones – known as MoonFall – will survey the lunar surface at potential @NASAArtemis landing sites in unprecedented detail. The mission is part of the initial phase of the @NASAMoonBase initiative. Learn more: jpl.nasa.gov/missions/moonfa…