Scientists with the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) and the University of Michigan College of Engineering (U-M Engineering)… showed that Mercury does in fact have an intermittent radiation belt that accumulates and fades in tandem with the solar wind.
In a paper published today… scientists from the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL)… described tracking the gradual emergence of the ten-sided jet stream wave by examining Hubble Space Telescope images going back to 2023.
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.
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