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One astronaut’s amazing Earth Day — getting ready to pilot a flight to the International Space Station
April 22, 2021
Alumna Megan McArthur to return to space as pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission, set to launch Friday, April 23.
Q&A: David Paige on the Feb. 18 Mars Perseverance landing
February 18, 2021
The UCLA planetary scientist is deputy principal investigator for one of the NASA rover’s experiments.
What Hollywood gets wrong (and right!) about protecting the Earth from asteroids
February 11, 2021
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).
Arianna’s long path to the stars
January 14, 2021
An astrophysicist faces the universe’s darkness with help from those around her and from the stars above her.
Making methane on Mars
January 7, 2021
How physicists are making a return trip from the Red Planet a possibility.
UC Berkeley played big role in Nobel Prize-winning work
October 7, 2020
Reinhard Genzel realized his mentor Charles Townes’ dream of exploring the center of the Milky Way on his way to his own Nobel Prize.
UCLA and UC Berkeley faculty share the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics
October 6, 2020
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.
Surprising number of exoplanets could host life
August 12, 2020
A star like our sun could potentially support six planets with liquid water, a new study finds.
UC Merced grad student, alumnus play significant role in Mars 2020 mission
July 30, 2020
As the rover soars toward Mars, a UC Merced lab will be partially responsible for its success.
Astronaut alum Jessica Meir answers questions from the International Space Station
January 30, 2020
UC San Diego alumna discusses her journey from ‘STEM to Stars’ during live Q&A from International Space Station.