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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 joins forces with NASA on missions to Venus
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
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
The UCLA planetary scientist is deputy principal investigator for one of the NASA rover’s experiments.