NASA Announces New Dragonfly Drone Mission to Explore Titan (Published 2019)

The quadcopter was selected to study the moon of Saturn after a “Shark Tank”-like competition that lasted two and a half years.

CU Boulder grad student aims to update campus’ scale model solar system

A University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences graduate student is raising money to update the campus’ scale model solar system.

The great Antarctic meteorite hunt

This winter, astrobiologist Brian Hynek traveled to one of the loneliest places on Earth to hunt for pieces of alien worlds.

OSIRIS-REx sees Bennu spewing stuff into space

The asteroid's rotation rate is also increasing, and scientists continue refining the plan to collect a regolith sample next year.

Massive U.S. Machines That Hunt For Ripples In Space-Time Just Got An Upgrade

The twin sites in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory are about to go back online. New hardware should make them able to sense more colliding black holes and other cosmic events.

Spiraling giants: Witnessing the birth of a massive binary star system

Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research in Japan, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Virginia in the USA and collaborators have made observations of a...

CU Boulder lands a slot on Artemis flight around the moon

NASA’s LRO Sheds Light on Lunar Water Movement - NASA

Using an instrument aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scientists have observed water molecules moving around the dayside of the Moon.

5 tips to handle daylight saving time change

In the fall, the end of daylight saving time is often greeted with a warm welcome, but it can be more challenging to adjust in the spring when you lose an hour.

LASP Public Lecture: New Horizons from Pluto to MU-69 and Beyond

Following the fabulous success of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, the spacecraft continued out in the solar system making the first close flyby of a small Kuiper Belt Object (KBO), specifically...