Space

A metal-extracting bacterium could change mining as we know it.

The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences includes a bioastronautics lab, a payload operations center with a real-time communications link to the International Space Station and an indoor drone testing space.

Monday, Aug. 26 marked the first day of school for CU students, and the opening of the university's new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building.

Laurie Cantillo, NASA communicator and educator, is on a mission to get more people engaged in science — especially girls.

CU scientists have been involved in learning about our neighbor in the solar system since at least the 1960s.

The former NASA chief technologist and current CU engineering dean discusses the moon, Mars and why we should think there's life on other planets.

Getting humans back to the moon is one thing. Jack Burns and other CU scientists are asking, "How can we stay?"

Did you miss this year's super blood wolf moon? Don't worry, CU photographer Glenn Asakawa's got you covered.

On the third floor of Old Main, encased in glass in an exhibition hall chronicling CU Boulder’s distinguished history in space, there’s a football with “Colorado” pressed into the pigskin.

Jim Voss has been to space five times. He can handle the Houston-to-Boulder commute.