Lick Observatory

Researchers from four universities are building fly’s-eye observatories to determine if other advanced civilizations are trying to communicate through laser blasts.

As the fall semester is now upon us, it’s time to look skyward to the celestial events that will light up the sky this semester.

What do illegal camping, bilingual sailing lessons and Robert Kennedy have in common? They each could be your path to a future university professorship — or, at least, they each were part of a UC Berkeley faculty member's road to success.

NASA confirmed the existence of five more Earth-like planets Wednesday after Belgium-operated telescope TRAPPIST discovered two in 2016, providing astronomers with the first concrete opportunity to search for intelligent life outside of the solar system

Millions in new funding will support the scanning of the stars for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life after a large donation announced this week.

The Daily Californian won a national award for a story published last year that looked into UC funding of Lick Observatory. The award is one of many doled out annually by the Society of Professional Journalists' student newspaper contest.

The UC Office of the President revoked stipulations that withdrew all public funding to Lick Observatory by 2018 — reestablishing UC support for the university-owned observatory located on Mount Hamilton.

The ASUC Senate passed bills supporting the preservation of Lick Observatory, a state proposition and a new research campus on Wednesday evening.

I would like to commend Virgie Hoban and The Daily Californian for the excellent Sept. 2 article regarding Lick Observatory and the university’s astronomy program. But the comments by former UC vice president of research and graduate studies Steven Beckwith and Provost Aimee Dorr about the University of California Observatories Board and the board's recommendation to cut funding for Lick Observatory are misleading.