University of California - Santa Cruz, Author at Astronomy.com

Gamma rays tell story of their travels

Exoplanets, Planets

Astronomers discover three super-Earths orbiting nearby star

Study of Andromeda’s stellar disk indicates more violent history than Milky Way

Exoplanets, Planets, Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

New Cassini data from Titan indicate a rigid, weathered ice shell

Detection of the cosmic gamma-ray horizon measures all the light in the universe since the Big Bang

Science, Solar System

Ancient lunar dynamo may explain magnetized Moon rocks

Cosmology, Science

Scientists release most accurate simulation of the universe to date

Exotic Objects, Science

Small distant galaxies host supermassive black holes

Milky Way, Science

Astrophysicists report first simulation to create a Milky Way-like galaxy

Science, Solar System

“Big splat” may explain the Moon’s mountainous farside

Galaxies, Science

Astronomers find most distant galaxy candidate yet seen

Cosmology, Science

Study predicts distribution of gravitational-wave sources