astronomy and space sciences
Black hole eats star, producing bright gamma-ray flash
June 16, 2011
Burst at edge of universe may be most distant object
May 25, 2011
![Martin White](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MartinWhite.jpg)
Astronomer Martin White named 2011 Guggenheim Fellow
April 8, 2011
![Cross section of a calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/caixsection410.jpg)
![Saul Perlmutter](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/SaulPerlmutter.jpg)
Berkeley Lab’s Saul Perlmutter wins Einstein Medal
February 23, 2011
![](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/kleopatra410.jpg)
How Kleopatra got its moons
February 22, 2011
![Keck laser](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/kecklaser410.jpg)
Ground-based lasers vie with satellites to map Earth’s magnetic field
February 14, 2011
![Kepler-11](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/kepler11.jpg)
Kepler telescope discovers six planets around distant star
February 2, 2011
![Jupiter](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/jup410.jpg)
New evidence that asteroid, not comet, struck Jupiter in 2009
January 26, 2011
![Milky Way Galaxy](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/milkyway410.jpg)
Forget Planet X! New technique could pinpoint Galaxy X
January 13, 2011
![](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/galaxy410.jpg)
Possible missing link discovered between young and old galaxies
January 10, 2011
![rendering of a planet](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/kepler410.jpg)
First rocky planet found around another star
January 10, 2011
First measurement of magnetic field in Earth’s core
December 16, 2010