UC Newsroom |

What Hollywood gets wrong (and right!) about protecting the Earth from asteroids

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).

UCLA and UC Berkeley |

UCLA and UC Berkeley faculty share the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics

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 Newsroom |

The most viral UC research of 2016

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.

UCLA |

A lunar honor for explorer Matthew Henson, thanks to a UCLA graduate student

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

UC Berkeley |

Planet maven Shannon Curry takes over MAVEN mission to Mars

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

UC Santa Cruz |

Holding stellar nurseries in your hands

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

UC RIverside |

Billionaires in the great beyond

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

UCSF |

Space travel weakens our immune systems — now scientists may know why

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

University College London |

Cosmic dawn occurred 250 to 350 million years after Big Bang

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 |

UC Riverside joins forces with NASA on missions to Venus

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

UC San Diego |

One astronaut’s amazing Earth Day — getting ready to pilot a flight to the International Space Station

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

UCLA |

Q&A: David Paige on the Feb. 18 Mars Perseverance landing

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