UC scientists and engineers have been vital to the success of landing rover and conducting experiments on the Red Planet.

UC San Diego researcher will look at how long-term space flight affects fluid pressure in the brain and its implications for vision, during and after space travel has ended.

In its first months of operation, the APF has found two new planetary systems, giving astronomers a taste of planetary riches to come.

UC places a financial stake in the development and operation of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which will be the largest, most powerful telescope of its kind.

A rapid succession of coronal mass ejections – the most intense eruptions on the sun – sent a pulse of magnetized plasma barreling into space and through Earth’s orbit. Had it hit, it could have disrupted our increasingly electronic lives.

Cosmologists detect curling patterns that appear to have resulted from the initial expansion of the universe.

"Bugs" from Candlestick Park, the Liberty Bell and elsewhere will travel to space for research and a microgravity growth competition.

Crumbling asteroid has divided into as many as 10 pieces, the Hubble telescope has revealed; its breakup may be due to the effect of sunlight.

UCLA alumna has nailed the first big hurdle toward a one-way trip to Mars.

New study shows what happens during the destruction of a star as it falls into a black hole, contradicting a 2012 report of the disruption of an exotic helium star.

When signals bounced off the lunar surface returned surprisingly faint echoes on full moon nights, scientists sought an explanation in reason rather than superstition.

California's largest meteorite museum opens on campus.