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October 27, 2026
The UVEX mission will catch the ultraviolet glow of stars, galaxies, and powerful cosmic blasts.
October 27, 2026
Join the Caltech community on October 28 and 29 for two days of science, discovery, and celebration as the Institute welcomes a new era of leadership.
October 26, 2026
JPL has been expanding the boundaries of space exploration since 1936, and with a roster of new missions, it is poised for what comes next.
October 23, 2026
As part of the Watson Lecture Series, Katie Bouman, professor of computing and mathematical sciences, will explain how scientific images are increasingly constructed rather than simply captured, not only in extreme astrophysics—such as through black hole imaging—but also in other disciplines.
October 15, 2026
The astronomer is known for uncovering hidden populations of black holes
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November 6, 2026
2:00 pm
TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
White Dwarf Physics Across Ten Orders of Magnitude
Dang Pham,
McCray Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and JILA,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
November 10, 2026
3:00 pm
Caltech/IPAC Seminar
More than two decades of the variable infrared sky revealed with NEOWISE, SPHEREx and Roman
Kishalay De,
Columbia University,
November 11, 2026
12:15 pm
Caltech/IPAC Seminar
Inspiring Future Planetary Defenders: Outreach, Teacher-Training, and Education Partnerships with NASA's NEO Surveyor
Valeria Jaramillo,
UCLA,
November 11, 2026
4:00 pm
Astronomy Colloquium
The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes from Pop III.1 Seeds and Implications for Particle Physics and Cosmology
Jonathan C. Tan,
Professor of Astronomy,
Chalmers University/University of Virginia,