Space
Planetary scientist Fran Bagenal first encountered NASA’s Voyager spacecraft during a student job in the late 1970s. Get her take on following these spacecraft for nearly 50 years, as they traveled to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—and beyond the bounds of Earth’s solar system.
Spencer Dansereau, a doctoral student in aerospace at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø, is building a business that could turn air pollution into a useable product.
In amusement park-like experiments on campus, aerospace engineers at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø are spinning, shaking and rocking people to study the disorientation and nausea that come from traveling from Earth to space and back again.
A recent 91³Ô¹ÏÍø study suggests confined flares are more efficient at heating plasma and producing ionizing radiation than comparable eruptive flares.
Alex Meyer is an astrodynamics expert, engineer, doctoral student and now part of the night sky. The International Astronomical Union has officially named an asteroid after him.
Mitchell Begelman and a team of other astronomers, including Joe Silk, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, published their findings in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggesting that new theories of galactic creation are needed to explain the existence of these huge black holes.
In February, a lander named Odysseus designed by the company Intuitive Machines is scheduled to touch down on the moon, returning U.S. science to the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years. Astrophysicists from 91³Ô¹ÏÍø will be along for the ride.
Scientists and engineers at the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø will soon take part in an effort to collect a bit of stardust—the tiny bits of matter that flow through the Milky Way Galaxy and were once the initial building blocks of our solar system.
Dezell Turner loves orbital design, a critical step in planning any space mission, and he is plotting out a way to streamline the complex process with an interactive, augmented reality tool.
The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) spacecraft, led by a team of scientists from 91³Ô¹ÏÍø, is about the size of a cereal box. It has also recorded incredibly detailed measurements of the atmospheres of planets hundreds of light-years from Earth.