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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches!

September 8, 2026

Professor Alex Filippenko named as recipient of the 2026 Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

September 8, 2026

The 2026 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy

September 3, 2026

Asteroid named after Imke de Pater!

Abigail Lee has been awarded 2025 IAU PhD Prize

Uranus has weird rings. Astronomers now know the source of two of them

Professor Alex Filippenko awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize for work on supernovae

In ‘Project Hail Mary,’ Ryan Gosling encounters aliens. How likely is that?

Astronomers capture birth of a magnetar, confirming link to some of universe’s brightest exploding stars

Wenbin Lu Named 2026 Sloan Fellow

NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog’s Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

Professor Dan Weisz Awarded a Miller Professorship for 2026-2027

February 26, 2026

Why are Tatooine planets rare? Blame general relativity.

January 30, 2026

Wenbin Lu receives award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement in the second year of Scialog: Early Science with the LSST

January 23, 2026

Professor Martin White Named American Astronomical Society (AAS) Fellow

January 9, 2026

Astronomers see fireworks from violent collisions around nearby star

December 23, 2025

What’s powering these mysterious, bright blue cosmic flashes? Astronomers find a clue.

December 18, 2025

Celebrating Black Hole Friday with Chung-Pei Ma

December 2, 2025

UC Berkeley Astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry Named 2025 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow

October 9, 2025

Not one, but two massive black holes are eating away at this galaxy