News Archive

LASP researchers to showcase innovative science and technology at HELIOTECH 2026

Erik Richard Retires from LASP After 30+ Year Career

New clues to Jupiter’s ‘energy crisis’ found in escaping hydrogen ions

LASP aerospace engineering student earns national honors for lunar dust research

Students celebrate the completion of the 2026 Boulder Solar Alliance REU Program

Farewell to CUTE: SmallSat leaves large legacy

Hubble Space Telescope reveals hidden white dwarf stars in four nearby star systems

LASP-CU Boulder faculty members awarded tenure

OWLS mission to study gravity waves will catch a Momentus ride into orbit

CU Boulder hosts science team meeting for NASA mission enroute to icy moon of Jupiter

Boulder Solar Alliance REU kicks off 2026 program

LASP awards inaugural Frank J. Crary Fellowship to Alex Doner

LASP celebrates student employees, welcoming some graduates as new colleagues

NASA selects CU magnetometer for further development

Six ways LASP is leading in lunar science and enabling exploration

NASA names CU Boulder-LASP planetary scientist Paul Hayne to Artemis geology team

Trio of CubeSats is a cross-campus collaboration

NASA selects LASP’s AtmOCube mission for development

LASP scientist Ryan French named 2026 AAS Shapley Lecturer

New graduate student fellowship honors planetary science leader

LASP scientists appointed to NASA astrobiology task force

LASP announces 2025 Barth Family Graduate Fellows

LASP at AGU 2025

LASP instruments target a trip to the Moon aboard future NASA Artemis mission

Summer 2026 Boulder Solar Alliance REU program application opens

Lead scientist Frank Eparvier retires after more than three decades at LASP

Coronal mass ejections at the dawn of the solar system

Six outstanding CU Boulder students awarded 2025 Charles A. Barth Scholarship in Space Research

Meet Team IDEX!

LASP welcomes Director Bethany Ehlmann to lead space science institute into new era

Innovating the future of planetary exploration: IPM-2025 concludes at LASP

The Shining Students of the 2025 Boulder Solar Alliance REU program

Are we alone? LASP researchers help NASA tackle the ultimate space science question

Solving the dilemma of space dust: LASP researchers win prestigious NASA prize for dust mitigation instrument

LASP honors longtime engineer with dedication of Kohnert CubeSat Lab

LASP to host NASA workshop on instrumentation for future planetary missions

Planetary science professor Larry Esposito to step down

Boulder Solar Alliance REU students launch into summer of research and discovery

From CubeSats to SmallSats—Big Science with Small Budgets in Astrophysics

A New Dawn in Solar Science: Trio of Tiny CubeSats Unveiled Secrets of the Sun’s X-ray Light

Weighing in on a Mars water debate

LASP: Every Planet and Beyond

LASP’s Fran Bagenal appointed to NASA advisory committee

Daniel Baker steps down as director of LASP

Five LASP missions to explore strange new worlds

Top 10 LASP articles of 2024

LASP at AGU 2024

Space weather applications for all

LASP welcomes CU Boulder Chancellor Justin Schwartz

LASP’s unique dust instrument sets sail to Europa aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft

Fun facts about LASP’s dust instrument heading to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa

LASP director of engineering retires after 46 years of service

Meet Team SUDA, part of NASA’s flagship Europa Clipper mission

CLARREO Pathfinder team wins prestigious NASA Group Achievement Award

LASP-led NASA’s MAVEN mission commemorates 10 years in Mars’ orbit

2024 awardees chosen for the Charles A. Barth Scholarship for undergraduate space research

LASP scientists make unprecedented observations of the ionosphere and thermosphere during May solar superstorm

LASP appoints Scott Tucker director of engineering

LASP’s Nicholas Kruczek awarded NASA technology fellowship

Making Space in the Universe: Stars of the REU

LASP team advances in NASA DYNAMIC mission concept competition

LASP appoints Dr. Lynda Duran associate director for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility

LASP team awarded NASA technology grant to develop dust analyzer

LASP Director Daniel Baker recognized with international space science award

LASP team attends launch of instrument to monitor space weather

Boulder Solar Alliance REU kicks off summer 2024 program

LASP designated first Center of Excellence for Capacity Building in CubeSat Technologies

LASP’s Tom Woods awarded NASA Outstanding Public Leadership Medal

Get to Know a LASPian: Chip Bollendonk

LASP welcomes NASA Heliophysics leadership

9 ways LASP is a leader in Earth and climate science

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

NASA’s Juno mission reveals less oxygen on Europa

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

LASP welcomes the Chancellor’s Parent Society Leadership Board

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

LASP welcomes University of Colorado Board of Regents

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

Get to Know a LASPian: Kristin Gutierrez

LASP’s Top Articles of 2023

LASP-convened session on the past, present, and future of sounding rockets to be held at AGU23

Probing the atmospheres of “hot Jupiters”

LASP at AGU 2023

A unique celebration of LASP’s 75th anniversary

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

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

EMM team receives prestigious international award

LASP selects artists for new art-meets-science program

LASP welcomes planetary scientist and MAVEN Principal Investigator Shannon Curry

LASP announces new director of mission operations and data systems

2023 Boulder Solar Alliance students shine

Briana Indahl awarded prestigious, early career NASA fellowship

Meet this summer’s Boulder Solar Alliance REU Cohort!

Get to Know a LASPian: Robyn Wing

LASP launches new Artist in Residence program

LASP’s Laila Andersson named to prominent National Academies committee

Get to Know a LASPian: Jenny Knuth

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

CU Boulder, LASP welcome NASA leaders to campus