News Archive

Front Range team wins NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge with innovative idea for lunar “service station”

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

LASP’s Top Articles of 2023

LASP at AGU 2023

Looking back at 75: Honoring LASP’s contributions to historic missions

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

2023 Boulder Solar Alliance students shine

Meet this summer’s Boulder Solar Alliance REU Cohort!

LASP launches new Artist in Residence program

LASP’s Laila Andersson named to prominent National Academies committee

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

CU Boulder, LASP welcome NASA leaders to campus

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

LASP: 75 years of innovation in space science

Do Earth-like exoplanets have magnetic fields? Far-off radio signal is promising sign

TSIS-1: Five years of solar science and counting

Solar and space scientists tapped to guide heliophysics into the next decade

CU Boulder leads in NASA astrophysics technology grants to universities

LASP’s Top 12 articles of 2022!

LASP scientists to present Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai research at AGU

LASP at AGU 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

Investigating monsoon-climate connections

NASA robotic mission to explore the Moon’s mysterious Gruithuisen Domes

LASP planetary scientist and diversity advocate Fran Bagenal inducted into the National Academy of Sciences

LASP-led mission to continue crucial climate record passes major milestone

CU Boulder receives NASA grant to develop new technology to monitor space weather effects

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

10 ways LASP is a leader in Earth and climate science

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

NASA’s IXPE Sends First Science Image

LASP and NSO researcher Adam Kowalski awarded early career 2022 Karen Harvey Prize

LASP scientists investigate life in volcanic habitats for clues to habitability on Mars

LASP researcher and Atmospheric Sciences professor Brian Toon elected AAAS Fellow

LASP students gain hands-on experience operating the IXPE mission

NASA awards $14 million to CU-LASP for two new CubeSat missions

Mysterious STEVE light emissions emanate from Earth’s magnetosphere

Scientists envision what Mars would look like as an exoplanet

Mapping the three-dimensional paths of electromagnetic waves from outer space to the ground

NASA to fund LASP’s new OWLS instrument

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

LASP-led research shows how hypervelocity dust impacts can affect a spacecraft and its operations

CUTE, LASP’s latest cereal box-sized spacecraft, to study ‘Hot Jupiter’ exoplanets

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

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

Hope Probe captures new images of Mars with the Emirates Ultraviolet Spectrometer

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

Hope Probe returns its first image of Mars capturing Olympus Mons at Sunrise

LASP researcher reveals new clues on what makes the Sun’s atmosphere so hot

LASP scientists find hidden pockets of water ice on the moon

LASP scientist determine that volcanic ash may have a bigger impact on the climate than we thought

CU on the Air Podcast: LASP Director Dan Baker talks with CU president Mark Kennedy about the Hope Mars Mission and the future of Space Research at CU

MAVEN: A new look at Mars’ ultraviolet nighttime glow

LASP Researchers take the ultimate Earth selfie

LASP awarded Earth Venture Mission Libera

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

Meteors help Martian clouds form

Rare “superflares” could one day threaten Earth

Small satellites tackle big scientific questions

LASP director awarded EGU’s Alfvén Medal

Mars terraforming not possible using present-day technology

Stolen electrons key to unusual Mars aurora

Complex organics bubble from the depths of Enceladus

GOES-17 shares first data from EXIS instrument

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

Major space mystery solved using data from student satellite

MAVEN mission sheds light on habitability of distant planets

Schneider honored for helping unravel mysteries of Mars

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

LASP to collaborate on new Grand Challenge projects

Building education satellites: LASP leads international team

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

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

Cassini starts its grand finale

Unique changes to comet 67P observed by Rosetta spacecraft

GOES-16 EXIS observes solar flares

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

LASP will lead operations for NASA black holes mission

MinXSS CubeSat fills critical gap in measuring the sun

LASP recognized for research on critical space weather missions

Launching rockets and STEM dreams for first-generation students

LASP research points to electrostatic dust transport in reshaping airless planetary bodies

The Jet Set: Understanding the plume shooting from a Saturn moon

LASP director elected AIAA Fellow

AAAS and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics Announce 2015 Fellows

MAVEN Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere

LASP director receives prestigious Shen Kuo award

Salt flat indicates some of the last vestiges of surface water on Mars, CU-Boulder study finds

CU Boulder Students, Faculty Primed for July 14 Pluto Encounter

MAVEN Results Find Mars Behaving Like a Rock Star