Morgan McFall-Johnsen

New details about the mysterious disappearance of Konrad 'Koni' Steffen, a pioneering climate scientist, who vanished on Greenland's melting ice sheet, raising urgent questions about climate change's dangers.

From a Berkeley Hills control room, a team from Cal’s Space Sciences Laboratory is set to lead the first university-run mission to Mars.

Peyrin Kao, a Cal lecturer, says he’s lost 15 pounds since he started his hunger in solidarity with residents of Gaza enduring famine.

NASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s interplanetary science. The newly launched ESCAPADE mission to Mars offers a sanity check for those plans

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket just launched a small trial of the kind of space agency envisioned by Jared Isaacman, the tech billionaire and private astronaut whom President Donald Trump has renominated to lead NASA. On Thursday afternoon the twin orbiters of the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission drifted out of New Glenn’s fairing and into space—on their way to map Mars’s interactions with the “solar wind” of charged particles flowing from the sun. Built mostly by the aerospace firm Rocket Lab, launched by Blue Origin and led by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, ESCAPADE is also a test to see if a mishmash of academic and commercial teams can send a twin-orbiter mission to Mars for under $100 million.

The East Bay Regional Park District has unveiled its final design for the North Basin Strip, south of the Gilman sports fields, with features for walkers and cyclists. No funds have yet been allocated to the project.

Jared Isaacman—the presumptive next leader of NASA—answered questions about his plans for the future of U.S. space exploration on Wednesday

Billionaire CEO Jared Isaacman will be the next head of NASA.Isaacman has led and flown on two SpaceX missions, including the first-ever commercial

Billionaire CEO Jared Isaacman is the 15th administrator of NASA.Isaacman has led and flown on two SpaceX missions, including the first-ever commercial