News Archive

LASP participates in Citizen CATE 2024 to observe sun’s corona during eclipse

Empty Space: A LASP Artist in Residence Exhibition opens at the Boulder Public Library

Teaching creative thinking in science through art: LASP artists-in-residence program hosts local elementary students

Get to Know a LASPian: Kristin Gutierrez

2023 awardees chosen for the Charles A. Barth Scholarship for undergraduate space research

LASP selects artists for new art-meets-science program

2023 Boulder Solar Alliance students shine

Meet this summer’s Boulder Solar Alliance REU Cohort!

Get to Know a LASPian: Robyn Wing

LASP launches new Artist in Residence program

Get to Know a LASPian: Jenny Knuth

New Emirates Mars Mission observations hint at the origins of Mars’ mysterious moon

CU to showcase 75 years of innovation and impact at the 38th Space Symposium

Get to Know a LASPian: Brian Evans

LASP: 75 years of innovation in space science

LASP’s Top 12 articles of 2022!

LASP’s Peter Pilewskie named to prominent National Academies committee for space-based research

LASP announces new graduate student fellowships honoring its first director

The stellar students of the 2022 Boulder Solar Alliance REU program

LASP helps host members of U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

LASP instrument selected for the next NASA ‘Living With a Star’ mission

10 ways LASP is a leader in Earth and climate science

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

CU’s LASP to lead operations for new NASA mission to ‘find asteroids before they find us’

‘Go for launch’—the next GOES satellite to include instrument built at CU Boulder

NASA’s IXPE Sends First Science Image

LASP researcher and Atmospheric Sciences professor Brian Toon elected AAAS Fellow

Scientists envision what Mars would look like as an exoplanet

NASA to fund LASP’s new OWLS instrument

LASP students, staff are ready to operate NASA’s new IXPE mission to study black holes

Celebrating CU’s Bruce Jakosky and his dedication to the MAVEN mission to Mars

NASA selects UC Berkeley – Compton Spectrometer and Imager for next Explorers Program mission

LASP: ‘Boldly going’ where no space science research institute has gone before

United Arab Emirates and LASP announce new mission to explore the asteroid belt

LASP researcher and Aerospace Engineering professor Xinlin Li elected a 2021 AGU Fellow

LASP researchers led by undergraduate discover river of dust around the sun from Parker Solar Probe

NASA’s MAVEN mission begins a new chapter with a new leader

LASP rocket flight to sharpen NASA’s study of the Sun

LASP and CU showcase expertise at the 36th Space Symposium

Dust storms on Mars play a huge role in drying out the planet

Branson vs. Bezos: who wins the race depends on your definition of outer space

Decades of Mars research by CU faculty and students lays the groundwork for human astronauts

Emirates Mars Mission to Arrive at Mars on Feb. 9th in partnership with LASP at CU Boulder

LASP scientists find hidden pockets of water ice on the moon

LASP researchers develop method to clean lunar dust from surfaces

MAVEN: A new look at Mars’ ultraviolet nighttime glow

LASP Researchers take the ultimate Earth selfie

Emirates Mars Mission launched July 19th in partnership with LASP at CU Boulder

ESCAPE funded for Phase A concept study

LASP awarded Earth Venture Mission Libera

CU Boulder leads the nation in Cubesat launches

Brilliant Martian aurora sheds light on Mars’ changing climate

Parker Solar Probe gets its first look at the Sun with help from LASP scientists

An India-Pakistan nuclear war could plunge the entire planet into an Ice Age

Think Saturn’s rings are old? Not so fast

Volcanic eruption may explain recent purple sunrises

LASP scientists and teams receive NASA achievement medals

GOLD reveals unexpected changes in Earth’s nighttime ionosphere

Planetary scientist honored for his cosmic perspective

An infrared close up of the moon

NASA selects LASP-led IMPACT center to conduct dust-related research

Meteors help Martian clouds form

Rare “superflares” could one day threaten Earth

From concept to satellite instrument in three months

When deep space calls, students answer

New Horizons goes beyond the known world

Small satellites tackle big scientific questions

Engineers, students played key role in hunt for alien worlds

NASA retires LASP-operated Kepler space telescope

In its final days, Cassini bathed in “ring rain”

MAVEN selfie marks four years in orbit at Mars

NASA’s GOLD instrument captures its first image of the Earth

LASP director receives AGU’s highest honor

Students race robots, write code at hands-on summer camp

Mars terraforming not possible using present-day technology

Stolen electrons key to unusual Mars aurora

Microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake could hold clues to life on Mars

CHESS-4 will examine building blocks of stars and planets

NASA powers on LASP instrument suite staring at the Sun

LASP-led CubeSat will study Earth’s inner radiation belt

NOAA satellite launches with LASP space weather instrument onboard

GOLD launches successfully onboard SES-14 satellite

GOLD team successfully completes environmental testing

Major space mystery solved using data from student satellite

Schneider honored for helping unravel mysteries of Mars

LASP-led team to study evaporating atmospheres of “hot Jupiters”

LASP scientists ready for Cassini’s grand finale

The Voyager spacecraft: 40 years in space, surreal solar system discoveries

Building education satellites: LASP leads international team

CHESS mission will check out the space between stars

1,000 Days in Orbit: MAVEN’s Top 10 Discoveries at Mars

NASA’s Van Allen Probes spot man-made barrier shrouding Earth

GOLD installed on commercial communications satellite

Cassini starts its grand finale

GOLD one step closer to launching into space

High-altitude water acts as atmospheric escape route for Martian hydrogen

MAVEN spacecraft completes one Mars year of science observations

LASP recognized for research on critical space weather missions

Launching rockets and STEM dreams for first-generation students