The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission to Mars, a NASA smallsat developed by the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory,
Message from acting director Stuart Bale: Dear SSL friends, I’m very sad to tell you that our colleague and dear friend Misty Willer passed away
[Read the full article in Berkeley Lab News] Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to make the largest 3D map of our universe
The historic May 11, 2024 geomagnetic storm awed aurora watchers in all 50 states, and scientists are actively analyzing data to determine its impacts on
Cal Day was celebrated on Sat. April 13th from 8:00am-4:00pm. White-tented booths were arranged around the central campus, staffed by dozens of individual departments for
FOXSI-4 successfully pioneered the observation of a large solar flare onboard a sounding rocket.
Chris Moeckel and Roger Roglans recently returned from Berlin, where they successfully integrated CURIE into the NovaPod with four other satellites. After a stop in
An article in the New York Times on April 4 titled “A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong” noted the DESI team’s
An orbiting space telescope approved by NASA last month and scheduled for launch in 2030 will conduct the first all-sky survey of ultraviolet (UV) sources in the cosmos, providing valuable information on how galaxies and stars evolve, both today and in the distant past.
The $300 million satellite mission, called UVEX (UltraViolet EXplorer), will be managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley.
If you have a DSLR camera and a tripod, you can participate in the Eclipse Megamovie project, run by current and former SSL researchers.
