Meet Kirsten Howley, the real-life Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory astrophysicist working to prevent “Armageddon,” as UC celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Feb. 11).

Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel will share half the 2020 Nobel in physics for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.

UC research comprised 14 of the 100 journal articles that got the most media attention in 2016. Take a look at what got the world talking.

A crater on the moon is now named for the Black Arctic explorer, whose achievements were played down in his lifetime.

At the age of 38, she is also one of the youngest principal investigators of any NASA mission.

Nia Imara and her collaborators have created new, 3D-printed models that provide a deeper understanding of distant star formations.

Scientists weigh in on the first successful civilian trips to space, and the ethics of being a billion-dollar rocket man.

As private citizens express interest in going to space, a late UCSF astronaut may have figured out an important riddle.

The formation of the first stars occurred 250 to 350 million years after the beginning of the universe, according to new UC Santa Cruz research.

The trips hope to illuminate how Earth’s evil twin became uninhabitable.

Alumna Megan McArthur to return to space as pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission, set to launch Friday, April 23.

The UCLA planetary scientist is deputy principal investigator for one of the NASA rover’s experiments.