Alex Filippenko

The most distant star ever observed — at a distance of about nine billion light years — was captured using the Hubble Space Telescope by a group of researchers, including members of the UC Berkeley department of astronomy.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, more commonly known as Berkeley Lab, was founded in 1931 by campus physics professor Ernest O. Lawrence and is currently located in the hills east of campus.

Victor Buso, an amateur astronomer, skyrocketed to fame after Sept. 20, 2016, when he became the first person to photograph the initial stages of an exploding star.

Before they were our illustrious gatekeepers of knowledge and information, UC Berkeley professors and lecturers were just like us: scraping by on hard-earned tips, scoring coveted research positions and all the while scrubbing the dishes of some stranger.

The total solar eclipse will be the first to stretch across the United States in almost 100 years, and the country’s first total solar eclipse since 1991.

UC Berkeley professor emeritus of astronomy Harold Francis Weaver and renowned radio astronomer died in his home April 26 at the age of 99.

A team led by a former UC Berkeley postdoctoral student discovered a special type of supernova that occurs when a white dwarf star explodes.

Researchers from UC Berkeley and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have shined a light on the mysteries surrounding black holes and their nearby galaxies in a study published in April.

A team of astronomers from UC Berkeley and other institutions, in their quest to reduce uncertainty about the expansion rate of the universe, has uncovered evidence that the universe is expanding faster than previously predicted.