Space

As scientists from both the MBRSC and LASP continue to work together and collect data from the Emirates Mars Mission, here’s a look at CU’s involvement in the collaborative, community-building nature of the UAE-led project.

With at least eight institutions dedicated to solar and space physics, the city of Boulder is a global mecca for science related to the sun.

On the CU Boulder campus, a group of about 100 dedicated students are working hard in the Sounding Rocket Laboratory. Their goal: to send things into space.

Forty-five years ago, Vance Brand made history when he and his Apollo crew members met with Soviet cosmonauts in space, only to narrowly survive a near-fatal landing back on Earth.

Patrick Pischulti helped NASA design a spacesuit for the newest generation of astronauts.

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.