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UC Berkeley SETI survey focuses on Kepler’s top Earth-like planets
UC Berkeley is searching for evidence of intelligent life on planets identified by the Kepler space telescope team as having Earth-like environments. This search for extraterrestrial intelligence...
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Twin ARTEMIS probes to study moon in 3-D
Some two years ago, two of five THEMIS satellites were boosted from their orbits around Earth toward permanent lunar orbits. The second of two is destined to arrive at the moon on Sunday, July 17. The...
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X-ray telescope to focus on hottest regions of black holes, supernovas
NASA is scheduled to launch an orbiting X-ray satellite on Wednesday, June 13, that will open a new window on the universe, allowing scientists to probe the roiling edges of black holes, exploding...
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Earth-size planets common in galaxy
Last year, astronomers were excited to discover that the number of exoplanets increases toward smaller sizes, suggesting that there are many Earth-size planets in the galaxy. A new analysis of three...
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UC Berkeley selected to build NASA’s next space weather satellite
NASA has awarded UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory up to $200 million to build a satellite to determine how Earth’s weather affects weather at the edge of space, in hopes of improving forecasts...
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Melvin Calvin’s moon dust rediscovered at Berkeley Lab
Some 44 years ago, the late chemist Melvin Calvin and colleagues at the Space Sciences Laboratory analyzed moon dust brought back by Apollo 11 and 12, published a paper, and then stashed the dust on a...
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Berkeley space scientists ready for Nov. 18 Mars mission launch
During the Nov. 18 launch countdown for NASA's newest mission to Mars, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN), many of the spacecraft's builders will be anxiously watching live video of the...
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Berkeley space scientists say ‘bon voyage’ to Mars-bound MAVEN
NASA's newest Mars-bound mission, MAVEN, blasted off promptly at 10:28 a.m. PST Nov. 18, to oohs and aahs from the approximately 75 UC Berkeley staff assembled at the Space Sciences Laboratory to watch...
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