Carl Grillmair, who is revered in the astronomy field for discovering water on a distant planet, was shot and killed Monday ...

Carl Grillmair was a Caltech scientist focusing on dark matter, galactic structure, stellar populations, and exoplanets.

Carl Grillmair’s work included research using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and focused on galactic structure, dark matter and stellar populations.

A 67-year-old man fatally shot in the unincorporated Antelope Valley community of Llano was a Caltech research scientist, the institution confirmed Thursday. The shooting was reported about 6:10 a.m.

Prof. Joseph Halpern, computer science, died on Friday. Halpern taught at Cornell for 30 years, having received multiple ...

Ancient bones from France reveal that Neolithic wars may have ended in ritualized executions and trophy-taking. The evidence suggests violence was staged to display dominance and unite communities.

It’s a fair question, since Alfred Tennyson is typically associated with the sort of sonorous, ringing verse you’d expect ...

A 1950s find of Late Pleistocene perishable items from two Oregon caves was recently made available to scientists. Included in the 55 items were two pieces of elk hide stitched together, dated to ...

It may sound like an oxymoron, but this massive nanoparticle made up of 7,000 sodium atoms is the largest to exhibit such ...

Scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan yearned for the American dream while growing up in southern India in the 1960s: specifically, a Chevrolet Impala, a muscle car he learned about from his father, a ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Pew Research Center has tracked trends in public trust in scientists closely since 2016. In the new survey, public confidence in scientists is about the same as last year: 77% of U.S. adults say they ...