ASPEN The universe is expanding faster than we thought, and Dr. Alex Filippenko is coming to Aspen to provide the details.Filippenko, who was voted best professor at the University of California at ...

Victor Buso, an amateur astronomer, skyrocketed to fame after Sept. 20, 2016, when he became the first person to photograph the initial stages of an exploding star. Focused on the NGC 613 spiral ...

Scientists have identified a type of supernova, or exploding star, that produces unusually large amounts of calcium — enough perhaps to explain the abundance of that element in the universe and in our ...

Alex Filippenko, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak at UNO on March 25 (Courtesy of UNO and Pontchartrain Astronomy Society) Alex Filippenko, an astrophysicist at ...

The cross-country trip made by world-renowned astronomy and astrophysics professor Alex Filippenko from California to St. Joseph Catholic School in Madison Friday was put in motion by a simple email ...

Astronomers at UC Berkeley have discovered the companion star of Supernova 1993J, confirming the first Type IIb binary star system using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Campus astronomy professor Alex ...

Berkeley Distinguished Professor of Astronomy Alex Filippenko hosted a casual star-gazing session with friends in Woodside, California, on May 18. That night, he captured pictures of galactic objects ...

This coming Monday, a total solar eclipse — an occurrence where the Moon passes between both the Sun and Earth obstructing the face of the Sun in its process — will cross North America, passing over ...

If you didn’t see the northern lights in the Bay Area over the weekend, you might be experiencing some regret during your Monday social media scroll. But don’t feel too bad. On Friday night, Northern ...

"It's a dirty ice ball ... or icy dirt ball." Alex Filippenko knows a thing or two about space. The astrophysicist, recipient of U.S. Professor of the Year and one of the most celebrated teachers at ...