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Billionaires in the great beyond
July 22, 2021
Scientists weigh in on the first successful civilian trips to space, and the ethics of being a billion-dollar rocket man.
Space travel weakens our immune systems — now scientists may know why
July 8, 2021
As private citizens express interest in going to space, a late UCSF astronaut may have figured out an important riddle.
Cosmic dawn occurred 250 to 350 million years after Big Bang
June 24, 2021
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.
UC Riverside joins forces with NASA on missions to Venus
June 9, 2021
The trips hope to illuminate how Earth’s evil twin became uninhabitable.
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.