Watch: Built at Berkeley, bound for space –– to measure exploded stars
In the latest segment of our ongoing series Born at UC Berkeley, Angela Zhang (class of ’26) suits…
How Berkeley shaped NASA’s newest space telescope
NASA’s latest triumph, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, will be unique in dumping 1.4 terabytes of data…
Watch: How UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory leads NASA missions like ESCAPADE
Perched high in the hills above campus, it’s one of only two university-based centers in the U.S. capable…
Astrophysicist Alex Filippenko awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize for work on supernovae
UC Berkeley supernova and black hole expert Alex Filippenko will share the 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize, which was…
Lightning bolts on Jupiter pack more than 100 times the power of Earth’s flashes
NASA’s Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter’s atmosphere on August 17, 2022, detecting a cluster of…
Berkeley’s Blue and Gold satellites are now flying through Earth’s magnetotail — a first
With their instruments now fired up and recording data, the twin ESCAPADE satellites are undertaking a test run…