Space
Telescopic images often capture traces of gases that may indicate life and habitable planets. But findings from a new CIRES-led study challenge this idea.
After a decade at Mars, NASA's MAVEN mission, one of the largest NASA contracts in CU Boulder’s history, has produced a wealth of data about how the interactions between Mars’ atmosphere, the Sun and solar wind can explain the loss of the Martian atmosphere.
This week, the crew of Polaris Dawn will attempt the first private spacewalk in history. Researchers from CU Boulder and CU Anschutz will be along for the ride.
Over billions of years, the universe's stars and galaxies have left behind an imperceptibly faint light in space. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled to the edge of Earth's solar system and captured the most accurate measurement of this glow to date.
A team at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has received a $2 million award to develop a concept study for a NASA mission that will investigate how Earth’s lower atmosphere influences the upper atmosphere.
Bolstering its longstanding collaboration with NASA, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics enacted a collaborative Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center focused on space weather.
NASA has awarded $1 million to a team led by LASP and CU Boulder physics scientist Xu Wang to develop a Rubik’s cube-sized instrument capable of measuring the speed, size and charge of tiny dust particles on small rocky bodies.
Sean Peters is leading a $2.45 million initiative to develop power efficient passive radar systems that could peek under the surface of Mars.
On June 25, more than 50 LASP employees, family and friends attended the Kennedy Space Center launch of NOAA’s GOES-U satellite carrying the fourth and final Extreme Ultraviolet and X-Ray Irradiance Sensors instrument aboard.
A joint proposal of CU Boulder and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has earned a $2 million award for a NASA mission concept study.