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A team of UC Berkeley astronomers and a Stanford physics professor will receive $3.25 million over the next four years from NASA to search for planets capable of supporting life.
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A UC Berkeley graduate student recently discovered a new solar system with three planets of similar size to Earth, using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.
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Astronomers at UC Berkeley have discovered the companion star of Supernova 1993J, confirming the first Type IIb binary star system using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
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On July 14, NASA held a panel discussion regarding the search for potentially habitable worlds and the existence of life on other planets. The panelists included some prestigious names — John Grunsfeld, an astronaut who personally repaired the Hubble Space Telescope multiple time while it was in orbit; John Mather,
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For the first time, astronomers led by a team at UC Berkeley have peered into the heart of an exploding star, giving them unprecedented insight into fundamental physics behind how stars crescendo into supernova explosions.
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More than 2,500 spectators held their breath Monday as NASA’s latest Mars-bound spacecraft took off with a deafening roar, beginning its 10-month journey to the Red Planet. Called the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, the mission launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and is
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The search for extraterrestrial life may no longer require examining galaxies far, far away or the pages of science fiction novels, according to a study released Monday.
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The Earth looked like a speck in the universe — a tiny pixel in vast space — in a photo taken from the perspective of a lens hovering 898 million miles away.
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UC Berkeley will be developing an Ionosphere-bound satellite with funds of up to $200 million from NASA.
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The space shuttle Endeavour took off for one last trip in California as it flew over the skies of Berkeley Friday morning in anticipation of its permanent installation at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
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