Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
- Scientists suspect there’s ice hiding on the Moon, and a host of missions from the U.S. and beyond are searching for it.
- ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder PhD student Mikayla Huffman joins ‘The Ampersand’ podcast for a discussion about identity and discovery.
- Julie Comerford, associate professor of astrophysics, initiated the NSF-funded research program opening pathways to students often underrepresented in physical sciences.
- Assistant Professor Meredith MacGregor and NIST Physicist Jake Connors taught their graduate students how to build and use radio horn antennas to locate neutral hydrogen in space.
- Doug Duncan, former director of ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium, developed the Solar Snap with today’s smartphone cameras in mind.
- The Research and Innovation Office has announced the 2023 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, which includes 17 faculty members from departments and research institutes spanning the campus.
- These faculty are being recognized for their outstanding records in teaching, service and leadership.
- When the Orion Crew Capsule orbits the Moon there will be no one on board. But the mission will mark a key step in bringing humans back to Earth’s dusty sidekick.
- Astrophysicist John Bally takes a look at the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope—an instrument that is gazing farther into space and time than anything ever built by humans.
- ‘I love the idea that this basic principle that Einstein told us about a long time ago is something you can see,’ ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder astrophysicist says.