UCLA-led NASA mission provides closest ever look at dwarf planet Ceres
NASA’s Dawn mission is observing the dwarf planet Ceres from 2,700 miles above its surface; the space agency has released new images and a video animation.
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Two large meteorites added to UCLA Meteorite Gallery
One of the new meteorites, found in Namibia and weighing in at 811 pounds, is now the largest meteorite in Los Angeles.
More than a million stars are forming in a mysterious dusty gas cloud in a nearby galaxy
Cloud of newly forming stars has one billion times the luminosity of our sun, but is invisible in ordinary light
UCLA physicists offer a solution to the puzzle of the origin of matter in the universe
Most of the laws of nature treat particles and antiparticles equally, but stars and planets are made of particles, or matter, and not antiparticles, or antimatter. That asymmetry puzzled scientists for many years.
Postdoctoral scholar Aomawa Shields named 2015 TED fellow
UCLA postdoctoral scholar Aomawa Shields of the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been named to the 2015 class of TED fellows.
Researchers awarded 83 million hours of supercomputer time to study origins of Earth's magnetic field
A team of UCLA researchers have been awarded 83 million core hours of computing time on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers to study the origins and evolution of the Earth’s magnetic field.
UCLA astronomers solve puzzle about bizarre object at the center of our galaxy
Scientists explained the bizarre object in the center of the Milky Way that some astronomers believed was a hydrogen gas cloud headed toward our galaxy’s enormous black hole.
Construction to begin in Hawaii on world's most advanced telescope
The Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources' recent approval of a sublease moves the University of California and UCLA a step closer to peering deeper into the cosmos than ever before.