Space

Researchers have discovered a single species of bacteria living in a volcanic lake that may rank as one of the harshest environments on Earth.Read more »

CU Boulder Assistant Professor Zach Berta-Thompson was on the ground in Florida to watch the launch of NASA's latest mission to hunt for worlds outside of Earth's solar system.Read more »

Researchers in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Science have completed an unprecedented "dissection" of twin galaxies in the final stages of merging.Read more »

A NASA-funded satellite will study the inner radiation belt of Earth's magnetosphere, providing insight into the energetic particles that can disrupt satellites and threaten spacewalking astronauts.Read more »

A team that includes a CU Boulder astronomer has detected a signal from stars emerging in the early universe.Read more »

The moon's excessive equatorial bulge, frozen into place over 4 billion years ago, may contain secrets of Earth's early history.Read more »

During post-galactic merger periods, orbiting stars can be flung into supermassive black holes and destroyed at a rate of one per year.Read more »

NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument, built by CU Boulder, will study space weather in the Earth's upper atmosphere.Read more »

Rising air during global dust storms on Mars hoists water vapor high in the the planet's atmosphere, new research shows.Read more »

Researchers have caught a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy snacking on gas and then "burping" not once, but twice.Read more »