We have sad news. Former SSL Director P. Buford Price passed away on Dec. 28, 2021. Buford Price received his BS in Physics from Davidson
Dr. Kevin Hurley, 79, of Berkeley, passed away on December 24, 2021 after being diagnosed with incurable cancer. Kevin was a prominent astrophysicist and devoted
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has officially “touched” the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona. Scientists announced
Why are the regions above sunspots so hot? Sunspots themselves are a bit cooler than the surrounding solar surface because the magnetic fields that create them
We have more than a dozen open positions to work at the University of California’s premier space sciences research facility. See the listing on our
NASA has selected a new space telescope proposal that will study the recent history of star birth, star death, and the formation chemical elements in
While officials at NASA and the European Space Agency, as well as planners in China, plot out ultra-expensive and complicated missions to return samples from
In mid-August 2021, the Advancing Space Sciences through Undergraduate Research Experience (ASSURE) hosted an outdoor (in person!) poster session at the Space Sciences Lab (SSL)
Using data from Parker Solar Probe, researchers saw impacts that were consistent with the two primary dust populations in the zodiacal cloud. The first population
The two probes launched atop and Atlas V rockets out of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and successfully completed their mission. While the electronics
