Space
New research led by Sascha Kempf of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder finds that Saturn's rings are no more than 400 million years old. That's much younger than Saturn itself, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago.
For three years at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder students enrolled in "Experimental Physics I" spent an estimated 56,000 hours analyzing the behavior of hundreds of solar flares. Their results could help astrophysicists understand how the sun's corona reaches temperatures of millions of degrees Fahrenheit.
The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, has unveiled a series of groundbreaking observations of Mars’ smaller moon, Deimos, that reveal new details of Mars’ most mysterious moon and where it came from, as well as the Red Planet’s larger moon, Phobos.
As early as 2030, engineers and robots from Earth could begin construction on an astronomical observatory that would expand over 77 square miles of the moon’s surface—almost entirely using materials mined from the moon itself.Â
A group of senior NASA leaders visited the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder campus where they met with Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØPresident Todd Saliman and other university officials, and toured the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are hard at work on research guided by students and researchers from Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder astrophysicists Kevin Reardon and Sarah Bruce are traveling across the globe to the fringes of Australia to witness a rare event—a total solar eclipse that will last just one minute but could help scientists answer a burning mystery about the sun.
The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics—CU’s oldest and highest-budget research institute and the only academic research institute in the world to have sent scientific instruments to all eight planets in the solar system, plus Pluto, the Sun and a host of moons—is celebrating its 75th anniversary.
Astrophysicists may have detected the first Earth-sized planet outside our solar system with a magnetic field—a potentially key feature for making planets habitable.
In a new study, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder astrophysicist Erica Nelson and her colleagues spotted six "fuzzy dots" of light in images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The candidate galaxies may have existed just 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang and contain almost as many stars as the Milky Way.