2018
08/14/2018: (UCLA) In a massive region of space, astronomers find far fewer galaxies than they expected
08/14/2018: (UC Riverside) Early Opaque Universe Linked to Galaxy Scarcity
07/13/2018: (UC Riverside) In Search of Dark Matter
07/13/2018: (UC Riverside) In Search of Dark Matter
06/26/2018: (UC Santa Cruz) ISEE receives presidential award for excellence in STEM mentoring.
06/14/2018: (UC Santa Cruz) Dust clouds can explain puzzling features of active galactic nuclei
06/06/2018: (Keck Observatory) More Mystery Objects Detected Near Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
05/29/2018: (UC Santa Cruz) New model explains what we see when a massive black hole devours a star
05/07/2018: (UC Santa Cruz) Astronomers find an exoplanet atmosphere free of clouds
04/23/2018: (UC Santa Cruz) Face recognition for galaxies: Artificial intelligence brings new tools to astronomy
04/19/2018: (UC Riverside) UC Riverside Astrophysicist Part of TESS Planet Finder Team
04/19/2018: (UC Berkeley) Astronomy Congratulates Professor Eliot Quataert on being elected to the AAAS.
04/04/2018: (UC Santa Cruz) Astrophysicist Douglas Lin remembers Stephen Hawking
04/03/2018: (UCLA) A cosmic quirk helps astronomers pinpoint the farthest star ever seen
03/28/2018: (Keck Observatory) Dark Matter is a No Show in Ghostly Galaxy
03/27/2018: (UC Berkeley) Flash-in-the-pan supernovas explained
03/26/2018: (UC Irvine) Asteroid named after professor Virginia Trimble
02/27/2018: (UC Berkeley) Amateur astronomer captures rare first light from massive exploding star
02/26/2018: (Keck Observatory) Stars Around the Milky Way: Cosmic Space Invaders or Victims of Galactic Eviction?
02/21/2018: (Keck Observatory) Astronomers Discover S0-2 Star is Single and Ready for Big Einstein Test
02/21/2018: (UC Santa Cruz) Novel search strategy advances the hunt for primordial black holes
02/21/2018: (Keck Observatory) Amateur Astronomer Captures Rare First Light of Massive Exploding Star
02/21/2018: (UC Berkeley) Better planetary management though data science
02/15/2018: (UC Santa Cruz) UCSC astronomer Alexie Leauthaud wins Sloan Research Fellowship
02/01/2018: (UC Irvine) Distant galaxy group contradicts common cosmological models, simulations
01/10/2018: (UC Santa Cruz) Earliest galaxies in the universe spin like the Milky Way
01/09/2018: (Keck Observatory) Planets around other stars are like peas in a pod
01/05/2018: (Keck Observatory) W.M. Keck Observatory achieves first light with NIRES
01/01/2018: (UC Santa Cruz) Supermassive black holes control star formation in large galaxies
2017
12/20/2017: (Keck Observatory) Astronomers Shed Light on Formation of Black Holes and Galaxies
12/04/2017: (Keck Observatory) A new spin to solving mystery of stellar companions
12/11/2017: (UCSC) Physicist Tesla Jeltema probes the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy
11/20/2017: (UC Irvine) Christopher Barty named AAAS fellow
11/27/2017: (Keck Observatory) Newly Discovered Twin Planets Could Solve Puffy Planet Mystery
11/14/2017: (UC Berkeley) Puzzling new supernova may be from star producing antimatter
11/13/2017: (UC Berkeley) Selections Made for the JWST Director’s Discretionary Early Release Science Program
11/08/2017: (Keck Observatory) Astronomers discover a star that would not die
10/16/2017: (UC Santa Cruz) Astronomer Alexie Leauthaud wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
10/16/2017: (UC Davis) Colliding Neutron Stars Seen by Gravity Waves and Optical Telescopes
10/16/2017: (UC Berkeley) Astronomers strike cosmic gold
10/10/2017: (UC Santa Cruz) Lick Observatory hosts Latino students and parents for night of astronomy
09/18/2017: (UC Berkeley) #MeasureEarth: a world-wide experiment to determine whether Earth is flat or round
08/14/2017: (UC Davis) Astronomers Spy Supernova’s Giant Companion Star
08/09/2017: (Keck Observatory) Four Earth-Sized Planets Found Orbiting the Nearest Sun-Like Star
07/26/2017: (Keck Observatory) Scientists Get Best Measure of Star-Forming Material in Galaxy Clusters in Early Universe
07/20/2017: (UC Riverside) Scientists Get Best Measure of Star-forming Material in Galaxy Clusters in Early Universe
07/04/2017: (Keck Observatory) “Little Cub” Gives Astronomers Rare Chance to See Galaxy’s Demise
06/19/2017: (Keck Observatory) Unexpected classification of exoplanets discovered
06/13/2017: (UCSC) Astronomer Jerry Nelson, pioneering designer of large telescopes, dies at age 73
05/22/2017: (UC Davis) Synestia, a New Type of Planetary Object
05/17/2017: (UC Santa Cruz) Astronomer Sandra Faber awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize
05/04/2017: (Keck Observatory) Ripples in the cosmic web
04/27/2017: (UC Santa Cruz) Ripples in cosmic web measured using rare double quasars
04/21/2017: (Keck Observatory) W. M. Keck Observatory Captures Rare High-Resolution Images of Exploded Star
04/12/2017: (Keck Observatory) W. M. Keck Observatory Achieves First Light with KCWI
04/10/2017: (Keck Observatory) Primordial Galaxy Discovered, First of Its Kind
04/10/2017: (UC Davis) Long Ago and Far Away, an Average Galaxy
04/06/2017: (Keck Observatory) Ancient Galaxy sets new record
03/23/2017: (UC Santa Cruz) Astronomers observe early stages of Milky Way-like galaxies in distant universe
03/23/2017: (UC Santa Cruz) Universe's ultraviolet background provides clues about missing galaxies
03/03/2017: (UC Santa Cruz) Astronomer Ruth Murray-Clay appointed to chair in theoretical astrophysics
03/06/2017: (Keck Observatory) NASA Study Using Keck Telescope Hints at Possible Change in Water ‘Fingerprint’ of Comet
02/27/2017: (UC Santa Cruz) Vast luminous nebula poses a cosmic mystery
02/23/2017: (UC San Diego) UC San Diego Astrophysicists Contribute to Major Planet Discovery
02/13/2017: (Keck Observatory) Over 100 New Exoplanet Candidates Discovered With W. M. Keck Observatory
02/13/2017: (UC Santa Cruz) Astronomy team releases planet-search data, finds more than 100 candidates
2016
12/09/2016: (UC Berkeley) Peering Back in Galactic Time
10/20/2016: (UC Berkeley) Long-term, hi-res tracking of eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io
10/31/2016: (UC Davis) New Theory Explains How the Moon Got There
09/7/2016: (Keck Observatory) Rare Fossil Relic of Early Milky Way Discovered
08/24/2016: (Keck Observatory) Cosmic Neighbors Inhibit Star Formation, Even in the Early-Universe
08/7/2016: (Keck Observatory)Scientists Discover Massive Galaxy Made of 99.99 Percent Dark Matter
08/03/2016: (Keck Observatory) UCLA Astronomers Use Keck Observatory To Look Back 12 Billion Years And Measure Oxygen
08/18/2016: (Keck Observatory) More Than 100 Planets Confirmed In Single Trove
06/20/2016: (Keck Observatory) Discovered: Youngest Fully-Formed Exoplanet Ever
06/02/2016: (Keck Observatory) Universe’s Expansion Is Faster Than Expected
05/19/2016: (UC Davis) Astronomers see Faintest, Further Galaxy
05/11/2016: (Keck Observatory) Four Synchronized Planets Reveal Clues To How Planets Form
04/25/2016: (UC Santa Barbara) Rare Earth Atoms See the Light
04/12/2016: (Keck Observatory) New Hypervelocity Binary Star Challenges Dark Matter, Stellar Acceleration Models
03/22/2016: (UC Riverside) UCR Student Traces Star Formation Rates In Distant Galaxies
2013
12/16/13: (UC Berkeley) Novel instrument probes close binary stars, may soon image exoplanets
12/10/13: (UC Santa Cruz) Astrophysicists launch ambitious assessment of galaxy formation simulations
11/23/13: (USA today) Scientists close in on finding most far-out galaxies
10/2/13: (UC Santa Cruz) Astronomers observe distant galaxy powered by primordial cosmic fuel
8/6/13: (UC Santa Cruz)Royal Astronomical Society honors astronomer Sandra Faber
7/25/13: Scientific Authorities Sign the TMT Master Agreement
6/25/13: Three Super-Earths Detected in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star
6/24/13: UC Adaptive Optics Featured on NPR
6/20/13: Dusty Surprise Discovered Around Black Hole
6/19/13: (LBNL) Supernova is Doubly Unusual for Being Perfectly Normal
6/5/13: Keck Scientists Strengthen Big Bang Theory
6/3/13: Lick Observatory: Music of the Spheres Draws Visitors
5/31/13: (UC Santa Cruz) Congressman Farr Honors Sandy Faber
5/24/13: (UC Irvine)Sizing Up Lightest Weight Dwarf Galaxy
5/24/13: (UC Santa Cruz) Detection of Cosmic Gamma Ray Horizon Measures All Light in Universe since Big Bang
5/24/13: Lick Observatory's 125th Anniversary: Front Page News
5/23/13: (UC Irvine) Fragile Mega-Galaxy is Missing Link in History of Cosmos
5/23/13: Lick Observatory Featured in History Channel's Science Behind Star Trek video (video link)
4/30/13: (LBNL) Does Antimatter Fall Up or Down?
4/29/13: Forbes Magazine Cites James Lick as All-Time Top Donor to Space Science (pdf)
4/18/13: (UC Santa Cruz) Distant Blazar is High-Energy Astrophysics Puzzle
4/13/13: TMT Site Approved by Hawaiian Board of Land & Natural Resources
4/3/13: Smithsonian Cites Lick and Keck Observatories in List of World's Greatest Science Labs
3/15/13: (University of California) Keck Observatory Celebrates 20th Anniversary
3/14/13: (LLNL/Keck) Astronomers Detect Water Vapor on Distant Planet
2/21/13: (UC Riverside) Naveen Reddy Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
2/14/13: (UC Santa Cruz) Charlie Conroy Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
1/23/13: (UC Santa Cruz) Mark Krumholz Awarded AAS Warner Prize
1/10/13: (UCB & UCSC) UCO Professors Alex Filippenko and Greg Laughlin Featured on new Weather Channel Series
1/9/13: (LBNL) Discovery of Most Distant Supernova Yet for Measuring Cosmic History
1/8/13: (UC Berkeley) Earth-size Planets Common in Galaxy
1/7/13: (UC Berkeley) Exocomets May be as Common as Exoplanets
1/2/13: (Keck Observatory) Surprise Pancake Structure in Andromeda Upends Galactic Understanding
2012
12/21/12: (UC Santa Cruz) Sandra Faber to Receive National Medal of Science
12/20/12: (UC Santa Cruz) Closest Sun-like Star May Have Habitable Planet
12/12/12: (LLNL) Laser Provides New Explanation of Astrophysical Phenomenon
12/11/12: (Keck Observatory) Keck Week 2013 Commemorates Keck Observatory's 20th Anniversary
12/4/12: (LBNL) Moore Foundation Gives Big Boost to BigBOSS
11/13/12: (LBNL) BOSS Quasars Unveil New Era in Expansion History of the Universe
11/7/12: (UC Santa Cruz) New Super-Earth Discovered in Habitable Zone
10/31/12: (UCLA) Protoplanet Vesta: Forever Young?
10/24/12: (UCLA) Dark Matter Haloes May Contain Stars, Disproving Other Theories
10/22/12: (UCLA) Most Planetary Systems "Flatter than Pancakes"
10/22/12: (LLNL) Milky Way's Black Hole Getting Ready for Snack
10/19/12: (UC Santa Cruz) Astronomers Uncover Surprising Galaxy Evolution Trend
10/5/12: (UC Berkeley) Astronomers Receive Grants to Explore Evidence for Extraterrestrial Civilizations
10/4/12: (UCLA) Astronomers Discover Star Crucial to Understanding Time and Space around Black Hole
10/4/12: (Keck Observatory) UCLA Astronomers Discover Pivotal Star to Test Einstein's Theory
10/2/12: (UC Berkeley) Geoff Marcy to Deliver Discover Cal Lecture, "Discovering Other Earths," Nov. 14
10/2/12: (UC Riverside) Astronomer Helps Children in Africa to Reach for the Stars
9/17/12: (LBNL) Berkeley Lab Sensors Enable First Light for Dark Energy Camera
9/12/12: (UC Santa Cruz) Sandra Faber to Deliver 2012 Maitra Lecture October 3
8/23/12: (LBNL) First Direct Observation of Type 1a Supernova Progenitor System
8/23/12: (UC Santa Cruz) Lick Observatory 'BBQ with the Stars' Features Renowned UC Astronomers
8/21/12: (UC San Diego): Intense Bursts of Star Formation Drive Galactic Winds
8/8/12: (LBNL) First Public Release of BOSS Data
7/26/12: (Keck Observatory) MOSFIRE Goes On-sky and Fulfills High Hopes
6/4/12: (UC Santa Cruz) The Atlantic Features Lick Observatory in Historic Transit of Venus Article
6/1/12: (UC Santa Cruz) Sandra Faber Awarded Bruce Gold Medal
5/31/12: (UC Santa Cruz) Milky Way Destines for Head-on Collision
5/31/12: (UCLA) David Jewitt Awarded Shaw Prize and Kavli Prize in Same Week
5/16/12: (UC Santa Barbara) Three-telescope Interferometry Reveals how Black Holes are Fueled
4/12/12: (UCLA) "Time Machine" to Study Early Universe
4/3/12: (UC Berkeley) UC Berkeley Passes Management of Allen Telescope Array to SRI
4/2/12: (UC Santa Cruz) Kepler app Puts Distant Planets at your Fingertips
3/30/12: (LBL) Clocking an Accelerating Universe: First Results from BOSS
3/5/12: (UC Santa Barbara): Study Supports Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact
2/16/12: (Keck Observatory) MOSFIRE Arrives, Heralding New Era of IR Multislit Spectroscopy
2/13/12: (UC Santa Cruz) Steve Vogt to Give Faculty Research Lecture February 28
2/8/12: (UCLA): Nearby Companion Dwarf Galaxy Discovered
2/8/12: (UC Santa Cruz) New Images Capture "Stealth Merger" of Dwarf Galaxies [View Images]
2/2/12: (UC Santa Cruz) New Super-earth Discovered in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star
1/19/12: (UCLA) Andrea Ghez Awarded 2012 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy
1/11/12: (UC Berkeley) Type Ia Supernovae Originally White Dwarfs
1/10/12: (UC Santa Cruz) Wandering Stars Give Clues to Milky Way's History
1/10/12: (UC Davis) Merging Galaxy Clusters Help Astronomers Understand Universe
2011
12/19/11: (UC Santa Cruz) Jerry Nelson Awarded 2012 Franklin Medal for Electrical Engineering
12/16/11: (UC Santa Cruz) Pristine Gas Discovery among "Physics World's" Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2011
12/14/11: (UC Berkeley) Disaster Looms for Gas Cloud near Milky Way Black Hole
12/14/11: (LBNL) Supernova Observation Solves Cosmic Mystery
12/14/11: (UC Santa Barbara) "Supernova of a Generation" Discovered
12/5/11: (UC Santa Barbara) Fastest-Rotating Massive Star Discovered
12/5/11: (UC Berkeley) Record Massive Black Holes Discovered in Monster Galaxies
11/10/11: (UC Santa Cruz) Astronomers Spot Primordial Gas from Big Bang
10/25/11: (UC Santa Cruz)Steve Vogt Receives Academic Senate Faculty Research Lecturer Award
10/5/11: (UC Santa Cruz) Most Energetic Gamma Rays Ever Detected
10/4/11: (LBNL) Saul Perlmutter Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
10/5/11: (UC Berkeley) Survey Gives New Clues to Supernovae Origins
9/29/11: (UC Santa Cruz) Most Accurate Universe Simulation to Date
9/15/11: (UC Santa Barbara) First Discovery of Planet with Two Suns
9/15/11: (UC Santa Cruz) Small Distant Galaxies Host Supermassive Black Holes
9/14/11: (UC Irvine) Models Show that Dark Matter Packs a Punch
7/29/11: (UC Santa Cruz) New Milky Way Simulation Solves Old Problem
7/26/11: (UC Santa Cruz) Sandra Faber Elected Member of the Italian National Academy
6/24/11: (UC Santa Cruz)Rare California Condors Spotted at Lick Observatory
6/16/11: (UC Berkeley) Black Hole Eats Star, Producing Gamma-ray Flash
6/7/11: (UC Santa Cruz) Chancellor Blumenthal Receives Honorary Astrophysics Doctorate from Alma Mater
6/6/11: (UC Santa Cruz) President Obama Meets with UCSC's Jerry Nelson and other 2010 Kavli Prize Winners
6/1/11: (UC Berkeley) Marc Davis & His Team Win 2011 Gruber Prize for Cosmology
5/13/11: (Keck Observatory) SETI Survey Focuses on Top Earth-like Planets
3/23/11: (Keck Observatory) AO Facilitates Discovery of Coldest Star Candidate [Image detail]
3/3/11: (UC Berkeley) Life History of 4.5 Billion Year Old Meterorite
2/22/11: (UC Berkeley) How Asteroid Kleopatra Got its Moons
2/9/11: (Keck Observatory) Using Jupiter's Moon to Improve AO Observation
2/2/11: (UC Santa Barbara) Scientists Help NASA Find Earth-Size Planet Candidates
2/2/11: (UC Santa Cruz) Astronomers Analyze Remarkable Extrasolar System
2/1/11: (LBNL) BigBOSS Gets Go-Ahead to Build Biggest Galaxy-Redshift Map of the Universe
1/18/11: (UC Santa Cruz) Sandra Faber Awarded AAS 2011 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
1/13/11: (UC Santa Barbara) Planck Mission Peels Back Layers of the Universe
1/13/11: (UC Berkeley) New Technique Could Pinpoint Galaxy X
2010
10/28/10: (UC Berkeley) Studies Show that Solar Systems Like Ours May be Common
10/27/10: (UC Santa Cruz) Professor Greg Laughlin to Deliver Halliday Lecture, "Search for Other Earths"
10/19/10: (UC Santa Cruz) Mark Krumholz Wins NSF CAREER Award
10/19/10: (UCLA) Weird, Warm Spot on Exoplanet
9/29/10: (UC Santa Cruz) First Potentially Habitable Earth-Size Exoplanet Discovered
9/29/10: (Keck Observatory) Observations Lead to Discovery of First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet
9/21/10: (UCLA) Universal Primordial Magnetic Fields Discovered in Deep Space
9/14/10: (UCLA) Evidence of Stellar Cannibalism Found
9/12/10: (LLNL) Impacting Comets May Produce Amino Acids
9/10/10: (UC Berkeley) Astronomers Track Asteroids Impacting Jupiter
8/26/10: (UC Santa Barbara): Kepler Finds Multiple Planets Transiting Same Star
8/25/10: (UCLA): SOFIA to Solve Mysteries about our Galaxy
8/17/10: (Keck Observatory) NSF Awards $1.72 Million for Keck I Adaptive Optics Upgrade
7/29/10: (UC Berkeley) World-Renowned Astronomer Donald C. Backer Dies at Age 66
7/20/10: (UC Irvine) New Concept Could Refocus Search for ETs
6/3/10: (UC Santa Cruz) Jerry Nelson Awarded Prestigious Kavli Prize
5/25/10: (UC Berkeley) Sunlight Causes Asteroids to Split
5/24/10: (UC Santa Cruz) Physicists Track Comet Closest to Sun
5/21/10: (UC Santa Cruz) Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney Awarded Urey Prize for Planetary Research
5/20/10: (UC Irvine) Brightest Galaxies Cluster in Busiest Parts of Universe
5/19/10: (UC Berkeley) Possible New Class of Supernova Puts Calcium in Bones
5/18/10: (UC Santa Barbara) Unique Eclipsing Binary Star System Discovered
4/29/10: (UC Santa Barbara) Public Astronomy Lecture "Hot Results on Cool Galaxies"
4/19/10: (UC Berkeley) Geoff Marcy Elected to American Academy's Fellow & Honorary Members
4/21/10: (LBNL) World's Best Supernova Dataset used in Search for Dark Energy
4/15/10: (UC San Diego) Light Reflected off the Moon Dimmed by Dust
4/13/10: (UC Santa Barbara) Discovery of 9 Planets Challenges Planet Formation Theory
3/31/10: (Keck Observatory) "Light Echoes" Provide New View of Historical Supernova
3/22/10: (UC Berkeley) Helium Rain Explains Lack of Neon in Jupiter's Atmosphere
3/17/10: (UC Santa Barbara) International Team of Scientists Discovers New Planet
3/15/10: (UC Santa Cruz) Hubble Treasury Project to Survey First Third of Cosmic Time
3/10/10: (UC Berkeley) Study Validates General Relativity, Dark Matter
3/3/10: (UC Santa Cruz) Garth Illingworth Awarded Honorary Degree by UWA
3/1/10: (UC Davis) Dark Matter Used to Measure Age of Universe
3/1/10: (UC Santa Barbara) Gravitational Lensing Measures Size and Age of Universe
2/25/10: (UCLA) Dark Matter Conference Highlights New Research
2/18/10: (UC Berkeley) Extrasolar Planet Images Win Award for Most Outstanding Paper in Science
2/18/10: (UCLA) WISE Mission Releases First Images
2/17/10: (UC Santa Cruz) Jonathan Fortney Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
1/29/10: (UC San Diego) Renowned Astrophysicist Geoffrey Burbidge Dies at 84
1/20/10: (UC Santa Barbara)Tommaso Treu Awarded Newton Lacy Pierce Prize by AAS
1/19/10: (LBL) Gravitational Lensing has Potential to Measure Dark Matter
1/7/10: (Keck) New Tidal Streams Found in Andromeda Reveal History of Galactic Mergers
1/7/10: (Keck Observatory) Second Smallest Exoplanet Discovered
1/6/10: (UCLA) Astronomers Map Shape of Galactic Dark Matter
1/4/10: (UC Santa Cruz) Hubble Uncovers Primordial Galaxies Never Seen Before
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