Space

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A 60-year-old mystery regarding the source of energetic and potentially damaging particles in Earth's radiation belts is now solved, thanks to a satellite built and operated by students.