Space
Marking the latest milestone in a new kind of space race, India's Chandrayaan-3 mission touched down safely on the moon. Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder astrophysicist Jack Burns gives his take on why nations and companies are hurrying to parts of the moon that no Apollo craft ever visited.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder is leading a major Air Force project to track objects orbiting near the moon, collaborating with researchers at Texas A&M, Georgia Tech and L3Harris Technologies.
A new laboratory for a plasma wind tunnel is taking shape in the aerospace building at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder. The project is the vision of Assistant Professor Hisham Ali.
An international collaboration, including researchers from Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, has for the first time uncovered compelling evidence of what scientists call the "gravitational wave background"—enormous undulations in the fabric of space and time.
At the center of nearly all large galaxies in the cosmos sits a supermassive black hole. In new research, a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder astrophysicist explores what might happen if you put these giants one-by-one on a massive scale.
The new mini-satellite, called MANTIS, will be designed and built by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. It borrows its name from the mantis shrimp, an undersea creature with famously powerful eyesight.
One day, small spacecraft could fly around Earth, using devices called electron beams to remove hulking, derelict spacecraft from orbit without ever having to touch. It may sound like science fiction, but aerospace engineers from Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder say they could be ready to test the idea in space in just five to 10 years.
The asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) measures about two-thirds of a mile across. It will also remain in Earth's vicinity for much of the next 1,000 years. Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder aerospace engineer Oscar Fuentes-Muñoz says its important to study objects like this one to make sure they don't pose a risk to life on our planet.
Assistant Professor Meredith MacGregor and National Institute of Standards and Technology Physicist Jake Connors taught their graduate students how to build and use radio horn antennas to locate neutral hydrogen in space.
A team of astrophysicists, including two researchers from Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, have caught a glimpse of a new and rocky planet called LP 791-18d. There, temperatures on the dayside could climb to more than 250 degrees Fahrenheit, while volcanoes blast the planet's surface.