Space

Alan Stern (PhD Astro’89) led NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. It was quite the journey.

Humanity has always looked to the stars, but it hasn’t been until relatively recently that we have managed to travel into space. Carolyn Collins Petersen’s (Edu’78; MJour’96) book, titled "Space Explorations: Past, Present, Future," takes you there.

On July 14, 2015, more than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour.

Students in “Pathway to Space,” the gateway course for CU Boulder’s space minor, released 170 balloons in January.

A new way of measuring elevation in the U.S. will yield the most accurate results yet — but might cost Colorado a couple 14ers.

Boulder named happiest city, Cassini's dramatic end, a dance legend and new marijuana research.

Jill Seubert had done everything possible to ensure their calculations and directions were correct.

CU Boulder’s aerospace engineers are preparing to lift off from central campus and land squarely in a burgeoning innovation hub on East Campus.

CU astronomer Doug Duncan has some advice about this summer's total eclipse: Don't miss it.

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