A group of audience watch video at the Fiske Planetarium of CU Boulder.

Fiske Planetarium, emeritus prof awarded $2 million NASA grant

May 23, 2022

This grant will be used to produce full dome videos that will educate the public on NASA’s latest scientific endeavors including two upcoming solar eclipses.

A nearby, young megamaser as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope

Discovery of cosmic ‘spotlight’ could reveal clues about evolution of galaxies

April 28, 2022

Astrophysicists have discovered a 5.4 billion-year-old megamaser—a beam of laser-like light that emerged when two galaxies crashed into each other

Rocky Mountain National Park and Milkyway

Undergrads are setting their sights for the stars

April 18, 2022

New astronomy program features CU Boulder interns giving Rocky Mountain National Park visitors a tour of the night skies.

The Moon.

A rocket is going to crash into the Moon–the accidental experiment will shed light on the physics of impacts in space

March 3, 2022

Scientists will have a rare opportunity to study how natural collisions pummel and scour planetary surfaces.

An artist rendition of a superflare

CU Boulder scientists bring stellar flares into clearer focus

Jan. 27, 2022

In work that has implications for the search for life elsewhere in the galaxy, scientists analyze data from 440 stellar flares and find them to be not just common and powerful, but also more complex than previously thought

Brown Dwarf

Astronomy student wins major scholarship at Cambridge

Jan. 12, 2022

Spencer Hurt is one of 16 students to win a 2022-23 Churchill Scholarship, which supports a year of graduate study at Cambridge University.

stonehenge

Astrophysicist, psychology profs tackle winter's darkest days

Nov. 17, 2021

Duo to discuss 'the darkest days and the season of light' from the vantage point of two disparate disciplines.

Supernova 1987a

Astrophysicist, STEM-education pioneer Richard McCray dies at 83

Nov. 4, 2021

‘Dick was my mentor and my collaborator,’ says education professor Valerie Otero, who credits McCray with keeping her, a first-generation, Hispanic woman, in physics

stock illustration of a woman in stem

‘She Has the Floor’ series aims to inspire girls to study science

Oct. 1, 2021

This series, a collaboration between Pretty Brainy and JILA, aims to connect girls and young women with scientists and leaders

Old Main

Four profs win Provost’s Faculty Achievement Awards

Sept. 16, 2021

This award recognizes outstanding achievements in research, teaching and service

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