universe

UCI astronomer says the discovery scrambles solar system models

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

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

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

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

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

Exhaustive emissions modeling by global physicists narrows down particle candidates

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 […]

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 […]