The images collected by the FOXSI team over its five flights are demonstrating the effectiveness of their next-generation X-ray optics and proving that sounding rockets have great potential to compliment satellite missions for basic solar science.
By Alan TothJune, 10, 2026 The Space Weather Follow On – Lagrange 1 mission, operated by the National Oceanic and…
Our undergraduate interns talked up SSL’s opportunities with visiting students and parents at Cal Day on Saturday, April 18th. According…
By Alan TothApril 20, 2026 On April 14, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its survey of the sky….
Launched to Mars in November, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes — operated by UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab — are now testing their instruments in a never-before-visited region of Earth’s magnetic field.
Much of what we see as auroras near the northern and southern magnetic poles begins as plasma currents in the Earth’s magnetotail. NASA’s CINEMA mission will probe this unexplored region.
Dr. Bruce Grossan passed away unexpectedly on February 10, 2026, at the age of 63.
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has reached its target orbit at Lagrange Point 1 between the Earth and the Sun.
Asteroid Bennu material shows organic precursor molecules that may have produced ingredients of life first formed from cryogenic ammonia.
Commissioning of NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft is proceeding smoothly. ESCAPADE snapped this selfie in visible and infrared light.
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