Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
- A CU Boulder planetary scientist is this year’s recipient of the Richard H. Emmons award for ‘extraordinary teaching’
- Claire Lamman, the college’s spring 2019 outstanding graduate, turned out to be much better at science than she’d thought possible
- A record setting number of CU Boulder students have earned Brooke Owens Fellowships to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration.
- In both the classroom and the lab, the 鶹Ƶ is a great place to learn physics and other natural sciences, according to the American Physical Society.
- In recognition of their exceptional service, teaching and research, three members of the 鶹Ƶ faculty have been named 2018 Professors of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Scientists have found what may be the universe’s lost sock at the back of the dryer—answering a long-running mystery that astrophysicists have dubbed the “missing baryon problem.”
- Bumper car-like interactions at the edges of our solar system—and not a mysterious ninth planet—may explain the the dynamics of strange bodies called “detached objects,” according to a new study.
- At 6:51 p.m. on April 18, a rocket carrying NASA’s latest space satellite, called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), blasted off from Cape Canaveral. CU Boulder Assistant Professor Zach Berta-Thompson was there. He called the experience “terrifying but incredible.”
- Researchers at CU Boulder have completed an unprecedented “dissection” of twin galaxies in the final stages of merging.
- Researchers have caught a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy snacking on gas and then "burping"—not once, but twice.