astronomy and space sciences

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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

ash clouds over volcano as seen from space

Effects of January’s Tonga eruption felt at the edge of space

May 10, 2022

PLanets aligned in the solar system

Study of salty water deepens our understanding of icy planets’ oceans

April 29, 2022

an artist's drawing of a future Martian colony, with red dust around solar arrays and a habitat

Solar beats nuclear at many potential settlement sites on Mars

April 27, 2022

two blue jets fly out from reddish clouds around black hole

Did rapid spin delay 2017 collapse of neutron stars into black hole?

March 1, 2022

simulation of vortex string flinging off deep blue axions

New simulations refine axion mass, refocusing dark matter search

February 25, 2022

Alex Filippenko teaching in front of a picture of a comet

Alex Filippenko honored by astronomical society for ‘passionate’ teaching

February 2, 2022

rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope

Berkeley astronomers to put new space telescope through its paces

January 25, 2022

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