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American Astronomical Society has announced that Smadar Naoz is the recipient of the Helen B. Warner Prize for 2020 for her many early career contributions to theoretical astrophysics.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Tommaso Treu and other HoLiCOW colleagues have found a new Hubble measurement that strengthens a discrepancy in the universe's expansion rate.

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Tommaso Treu and fellow astronomers have found that dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known.

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Mark Morris and colleagues have revealed a new image of a candy-cane-shaped feature in the center of our galaxy.

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Astrophysicist Smadar Naoz has found that a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may have a friend.

Thursday, December 12, 2019

David Jewitt leads a new analysis of data from Hubble Space Telescope that provides more details about the first observed interstellar comet.

Thursday, December 12, 2019

UCLA Professor Emeritus Edward L. Wright has been acknowledged in the 2019 list of the world’s most influential scientific researchers.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Astronomer Tommaso Treu and colleagues have released a study suggesting that the universe is expanding more rapidly than previously thought.

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Ben Zuckerman and Hilke Schlichting have co-authored a study suggesting that Earth is not unique: Earth-like planets may be common in the universe.

Thursday, October 17, 2019

David Jewitt has captured the best and sharpest look at a comet from outside of our solar system that recently barged into our own. It is the first interstellar comet astronomers have observed.

Wednesday, October 16, 2019