astronomy and space sciences

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

August 12, 2022

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

July 26, 2022

Engineering alum will pilot SpaceX Dragon to space station in 2023

July 15, 2022

The ultimate fate of a star shredded by a black hole

July 11, 2022

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

June 10, 2022

AI reveals unsuspected math underlying search for exoplanets

May 24, 2022

Berkeley students flip, float and experiment on zero gravity flight

May 20, 2022

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

May 10, 2022

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

April 29, 2022

Solar beats nuclear at many potential settlement sites on Mars

April 27, 2022

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

March 1, 2022

New simulations refine axion mass, refocusing dark matter search

February 25, 2022

Alex Filippenko honored by astronomical society for ‘passionate’ teaching

February 2, 2022

Berkeley astronomers to put new space telescope through its paces

January 25, 2022

Reasons to be hopeful, optimistic and maybe even cheerful in 2022

January 18, 2022

Astronomers see death throes of giant star before violent explosion

January 6, 2022