The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its Gold Medal in Astronomy to Sandra Faber, professor emerita of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz.

A new endowment honoring the third director of Lick Observatory will support current and future directors’ priorities for the observatory.

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, is among a select group of scientists who delivered TED talks at the National Academy of Sciences in November.

Research led by astronomers at UC Santa Cruz and Carnegie Institution for Science has implications for understanding how planets form.

‘La Noche de las Estrellas’ at Lick Observatory brings science to Spanish-speaking students and their families.

UCSC faculty are using the new system for research in astrophysics, climate science, materials science, chemistry, and other fields.

A giant-impacts phase in the evolution of planetary systems can explain the observations of close-in giant planets with eccentric orbits.

Scientists thought they found clues pointing to a collision between two exoplanets ten years ago. Now they found more evidence of a catastrophic collision.

Analysis of radio pulses that passed through a galactic halo reveals a surprisingly quiescent halo with very low density and weak magnetic field.