Lick Observatory celebrates 125 years of innovation

Lick Observatory and its 125th anniversary recently featured in the San Jose Mercury.

Congressman Farr honors Sandy Faber at Senate meeting

U.S. Congressman Sam Farr paid a surprise visit to the May 29 meeting of UCSC's Academic Senate in order to pay tribute to astronomer Sandra Faber.

Astrophysics internships bring community college students to UCSC

The astrophysics program is reaching out to community college students through a new summer internship program.

UCSC graduate student Mark Mozena awarded AAAS Congressional Science Fellowship

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the Congressional Science Fellowship to Mark Mozena, graduate student of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz.

NSF Foundation fellowships support Department of Astronomy graduate students

Five UC Santa Cruz graduate students with the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics have been awarded NSF fellowships this year. As the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the GRFP has a long history of selecting recipients who achieve high levels of success in their future academic and professional careers.

Stellar motions in outer halo shed new light on Milky Way evolution

For the first time, astronomers have measured the sideways motions of stars in the outer halo of the Milky Way, yielding clues to our galaxy's remote past.

UCSC astrophysicist Charlie Conroy wins Sloan Research Fellowship

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship to Charlie Conroy, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics.

Rare explosion may have created galaxy's youngest black hole

New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomer Sandra Faber honored in White House ceremony

President Barack Obama presented astronomer Sandra Faber with the National Medal of Science in a White House ceremony on Friday.

Dr. Jason Kalirai, former UCSC Postdoc, awarded the 2013 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize

Jason Kalirai of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has been awarded the 2013 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize. This annual prize from the American Astronomical Society is for outstanding achievement in observational astronomy by an astronomer under the age of 36.

Astronomer Mark Krumholz awarded AAS Warner Prize

Astronomer Mark Krumholz has been chosen to receive the 2013 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy.

UCSC astronomer Sandra Faber to receive the National Medal of Science

The White House announced Friday, December 21, that UC Santa Cruz faculty member Sandra Faber is one of a dozen eminent researchers selected to receive the National Medal of Science.

Grad Student Morgan McLeod and UCSC OpenLab featured in UX Magazine

Closest single star like our Sun may have a habitable planet

An international team of astronomers has found that Tau Ceti, one of the closest and most Sun-like stars, may host five planets.

Astronomy Professor Ramirez-Ruiz delivered keynote presentation about Turning Stars into Gold at the 2012 SACNAS Meeting

Astronomy Professor Ramirez-Ruiz delivered a keynote presentation about Turning Stars into Gold at the 2012 SACNAS Meeting in front of more than 3000 attendees. SACNAS is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the success of Hispanic/Chicano and Native American scientists. Its annual meeting is the largest meeting of minority scientists in the nation.

New super-Earth planet found in habitable zone of six-planet system

An international team of astronomers has discovered a new super-Earth planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star.

UCSC Science Internship Program (SIP) participants are recognized in prestigious Siemens STEM competition

SIP had a total of seven semi-finalists and two regional finalists who submitted papers based on their research in the UCSC summer program.

Astronomers uncover a surprising trend in galaxy evolution

A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion years.

Hubble produces deepest ever view of the universe

UCSC astronomer Garth Illingworth's team assembled the "eXtreme Deep Field" image of distant galaxies.

First Images from the Dark Energy Camera Help SLAC-Stanford Astrophysicists Seek the Invisible

Though scientists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory lead the project, they count among their number the Santa Cruz-SLAC-Stanford Consortium, the official name for a small, tight knit group of scientists who helped make the pictures happen.