space sciences

A UCLA-led study shows that stars merging through collisions may explain how supermassive black holes formed so early in time.

In a once-in-a-century event, an impact left a crater the size of two football fields and churned the surface for over 3 km in every direction.

UCLA's Alvine Kamaha and her colleagues on the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed an event that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs.

UCLA professor Amy Mainzer talks about our sun’s remarkable star quality — and offers a playlist for your solar eclipse soundtrack.

Director of the UCLA Space Medicine Program, Dr. Haig Aintablian, spends his days immersed in groundbreaking research and space-adjacent experiences.

After his life-changing ‘Star Trek’ role, the actor and UCLA alumnus works to build a common future.

The seven projects supported by the grant pair early-career faculty and doctoral students in critical and emerging areas of research.

I’ve been at UCLA for almost 27 years — more than half my life!

Treu’s Faculty Research Lecture takes place April 24.

The new satellite will provide scientists with a detailed look at how the texture of the Earth’s surface is changing.

Interdisciplinary experts from across the UCLA College explore their lunar fascinations in light of NASA’s April 1 rocket liftoff.

The most detailed images ever captured of another planet’s subsurface have revealed the buried remains of an ancient river delta in Jezero crater.

The discovery confirms that they are not brown dwarfs.

UCLA’s department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences fieldwork immerses students in discovery.

Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form.

It is the first time the novel imaging technique has been used on telescopes.

The gift will help UCLA recruit scholars in the departments of physics and astronomy and of chemistry and biochemistry.

Solar physicist Brandon Lazard, who will graduate in June with a master’s in space physics, shares his outlook on life and science.

UCLA-led physicists have proposed a new route by which neutrinos can be produced.

Water and gas react under intense heat and pressure in the atmospheres of young Earth-to-Neptune-sized planets.

Giant exoplanets with elliptical orbits and smaller planets with nearly circular orbits formed along different pathways.

The jet is tens of millions of times larger than the supermassive black hole’s event horizon.

In practice and in scholarship, magic continues to intrigue and inspire students, faculty and staff throughout UCLA. Here are a few quick glimpses behind the glamour.

Research from UCLA and NASA finds molecular orientation pattern likely results from factors other than chemical predisposition.

Radiation from dark matter may have kept hydrogen gas hot enough to condense into black holes instead of stars.