astronomy and space sciences

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nighttime at telescope, with galaxy of stars overhead

Were galaxies much different in the early universe?

January 24, 2023

JWST and Keck images of Titan, side by side

Webb Space Telescope, Keck team up to study Saturn’s moon Titan

December 1, 2022

3 women at a chalkboard with masks

For female astronomers, pandemic widened publishing’s gender gap

November 28, 2022

A illustration shows an aerial view of a collection of futuristic buildings in a orange, desert landscape

Building an extraterrestrial ‘starter kit’ for a future on Mars

November 15, 2022

Saturn photo with a ring of icy rocks surrounding it

Chrysalis, the lost moon that gave Saturn its rings

September 15, 2022

image of exoplanet with its star occulted

Webb Telescope images Jupiter-like planet 350 light years away

September 1, 2022

selfie taken by Perseverance rover in Jezero crater

Perseverance rover retrieves key clues to Mars’ geologic and water history

August 25, 2022

blue and green orb of Jupiter, with a fringe of orange-red auroras at both poles

Surprising details leap out in sharp new James Webb Space Telescope images of Jupiter

August 22, 2022

blue and green orb of Jupiter, with a fringe of orange-red auroras at both poles

Webb Telescope infrared image of Jupiter: color composite

August 22, 2022

artistic rendition of distant light-blue star with a large blue planet in foreground

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip planets to their rocky cores

August 12, 2022

a pulsar shoots out green and magenta beams that encounter orange companion star

Heaviest neutron star to date is a ‘black widow’ eating its mate

July 26, 2022

Woody Hoburg in NASA suit standing in front of a jet

Engineering alum will pilot SpaceX Dragon to space station in 2023

July 15, 2022

red-orange tail shows path of star pulled into a black hole

The ultimate fate of a star shredded by a black hole

July 11, 2022

field of stars with black hole in center

Astronomers may have detected a ‘dark’ free-floating black hole

June 10, 2022

a large planet with star glowing in distance

AI reveals unsuspected math underlying search for exoplanets

May 24, 2022

A group of people wearing blue jumpsuits surround a clear orange box that is attached to the floor in the cabin of an aircraft. They are smiling and floating in the air because they are experiencing zero gravity.

Berkeley students flip, float and experiment on zero gravity flight

May 20, 2022