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Researchers find exoplanet that appears to be too big for its sun

UCI astronomer says the discovery scrambles solar system models

Photo of Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tuscon, Arizona.

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument early data release holds nearly 2 million objects

UC Irvine-led mission’s cosmic maps include galaxies, quasars and stars in the Milky Way

UCI physicist proposes new experiment to detect dark matter in our solar system

SpaceQ mission involves atomic clocks on spacecraft placed close to the sun

UCI, UC Riverside astronomers discover galactic protocluster in early universe

Researchers surprised to find that many of the galaxies had stopped forming new stars

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument team begins 3D mapping of universe

UCI astronomers help gather and study data from more than 30 million galaxies

Extragalactic pioneer

UCI astronomer will be one of the first to conduct research with the world’s premier space telescope

 

UCI-led study rules out dark matter destruction as origin of extra radiation in galaxy center

Exhaustive emissions modeling by global physicists narrows down particle candidates

UCI astronomers analyze second-most distant quasar

Using three observatories on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi, astronomers at the University of Arizona have discovered the second-most distant quasar ever found. As part of an international effort to confirm and study the newly discovered object, a team at UCI and UC Santa Barbara used the Keck II 10-meter telescope to perform a spectroscopic analysis. The […]

Astronomers discover once-productive galaxy that fizzled out in early universe

An international team of astronomers, including a researcher from UCI’s Department of Physics & Astronomy, has found an ultramassive galaxy as it existed more than 12 billion years ago. Galaxy XMM-2599 was extremely productive early on – hatching more than 300 billion suns by the time the universe had its 1 billionth birthday (it’s now […]