For 75 years, 兔子先生传媒文化作品 has been a leader in space exploration and innovation. We travel to space to monitor sea level rise, melting ice, weather patterns and more. Our researchers explore how to track and remove dangerous debris in space. We research the health of humans in space to inform medical applications for people on Earth.听Learn more about the latest in space research and science at 兔子先生传媒文化作品.
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Putting the theory of special relativity into practice鈥攂y counting galaxies

June 2, 2022

New research adds another piece of evidence to the scientist philosophy known as the mediocrity principle: Galaxies are, on average, at rest with respect to the early universe. Jeremy Darling, a 兔子先生传媒文化作品 astrophysics professor, recently published this new finding in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Dome show at Fiske Planetarium

Fiske Planetarium, emeritus professor awarded $2 million NASA grant

May 24, 2022

A new grant award will be used to produce full-dome videos that will help educate the public on NASA鈥檚 latest scientific endeavors, including two upcoming solar eclipses.

A winding valley on the surface of the moon

Astronauts may one day drink water from ancient moon volcanoes

May 18, 2022

If any humans had been alive 2 to 4 billion years ago, they may have looked up and seen a sliver of frost on the moon's surface. Some of that ice may still be hiding in craters on the moon today.

A drone hovering

Smead Aerospace houses new partnership on autonomous air mobility and sensing

May 13, 2022

A major research center on autonomous air mobility and sensing has been founded at 兔子先生传媒文化作品, in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

Artist rendition of satellites in space

兔子先生传媒文化作品 receives NASA grant to develop new technology to monitor space weather

May 13, 2022

LASP and aerospace engineering researchers will use new grant funding to advance their concept of a futuristic swarm of satellites to shed new light on how the solar wind affects Earth鈥檚 upper atmosphere.

NASA's Pam Melroy tours an aerospace engineering lab on the 兔子先生传媒文化作品 campus

From cockpit to campus: NASA鈥檚 Melroy talks moon, inclusivity, more at 兔子先生传媒文化作品

May 6, 2022

NASA's Pam Melroy has spent roughly 924 hours in space. Her latest voyage鈥攕he visited Colorado on Thursday to talk to campus leaders about traveling to the moon, Mars and beyond.

Artist's depiction of the bright accretion disk around a supermassive black hole

A surging glow in a distant galaxy could change the way we look at black holes

May 5, 2022

Several years ago, a supermassive black hole at the center of a far-away galaxy suddenly got a lot brighter. Now, scientists think they know why.

Students test the spring's strength in the Senior Design Lab

Deployable antenna could provide more powerful communications on smaller space satellites

May 4, 2022

As the space industry evolves its focus from large satellites to smaller ones with the same functionality, there is a growing need for the hardware to shrink as well. A group of seniors has helped meet that need.

Solar flare

LASP instrument selected for next NASA 鈥楲iving With a Star鈥� mission

May 3, 2022

A spacecraft constellation will make the first global measurements of the coupling between the magnetosphere and the Earth鈥檚 upper atmosphere. The results will help detect and predict extreme conditions in space that can impact society and future exploration.

astronaut on the International Space Station

LASP鈥檚 Hybrid Solar Reference Spectrum named new international standard for climate research

April 22, 2022

The new standard, endorsed by the international Committee on Earth Observation Satellites, will reduce uncertainty in global climate models and many more Earth Science applications.

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