Space
- More than 50 years after humans first set foot on the moon, one ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder researcher will gain access to a cache of never-before-studied lunar rocks.
- Artificial gravity has long been the stuff of science fiction. Picture the wheel-shaped ships from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Martian, imaginary craft that generate their own gravity by spinning around in space. Now, a team from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder is working to make those out-there technologies a reality.Â
- NASA announced that it will send a new infrared camera to the moon to collect unprecedented temperature data on the boulders and shadows at the surface.
- This May, in a remote part of southern Utah, 21 ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder aerospace engineering students, a mix of graduate students and undergrads, became Martians.
- A new space mission may soon examine some of the solar system’s most dynamic duos: binary asteroids.
- Researchers think they’ve solved the long-standing mystery of how Mars got all of its clouds.
- A deep dive into the sun's interior provides new clues to the forces that govern that star's internal clock.
- New research shows that the sun could experience a massive burst of energy called a superflare sometime in the next several thousand years.
- Want more accurate weather forecasts? You’re in luck: Last month, the first in a planned fleet of satellites launched that will one day record weather data at every point on the globe every 15 minutes.
- As NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft enters into a new orbit, researchers reflect on the past and future of this landmark mission that has opened a new window into the evolution of the Red Planet.