News Archive

TSIS-2 funded to continue 40 years of solar measurements

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

An infrared close up of the moon

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

Meteors help Martian clouds form

MAVEN sets its sights beyond Mars

When deep space calls, students answer

Small satellites tackle big scientific questions

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

The outer limits: New satellite to probe solar system’s edges

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

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

MAVEN mission sheds light on habitability of distant planets

TSIS instrument package ready for lift-off to ISS

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

LASP to collaborate on new Grand Challenge projects

LASP scientists ready for Cassini’s grand finale

Building education satellites: LASP leads international team

TSIS shipped to Kennedy Space Center for upcoming launch

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

Ready for launch: Instrument suite to assess space weather

MAVEN spacecraft completes one Mars year of science observations

MinXSS CubeSat fills critical gap in measuring the sun

Launching rockets and STEM dreams for first-generation students

LASP scientists, students primed for Juno arrival at Jupiter

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

Sounding rocket EVE supports tune-up of SDO EVE instrument

MinXSS CubeSat set to deploy from ISS, study sun’s soft X-rays

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

Student Dust Counter got few “hits” during Pluto flyby

LASP-built instrument to study the birthplace of stars and planets

LASP director elected AIAA Fellow

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

Instrument designed by CU Boulder students speeds by Pluto on historic New Horizons mission

CU Boulder Students, Faculty Primed for July 14 Pluto Encounter

MAVEN Results Find Mars Behaving Like a Rock Star

Moon engulfed in permanent, lopsided dust cloud

New Horizons in Astronomy

LASP instrument selected for NASA mission to Europa

Using a Sounding Rocket to Help Calibrate NASA’s SDO

PRESS RELEASE: United Arab Emirates to partner with CU-Boulder on 2021 Mars mission

CU-Boulder hitches a ride to space on commercial satellite

After successful mission to Mercury, spacecraft on a crash course with history

LASP Director Awarded Sarabhai Professorship and Prize

PRESS RELEASE: GOLD Approved for Final Design and Fabrication

MAVEN spacecraft detects aurora and mysterious dust cloud around Mars

PRESS RELEASE: Saturn Moon’s Ocean May Have Hydrothermal Activity

LASP brings New Horizons science to rural Colorado communities

CU-Boulder students to help control instruments on MMS from LASP

LASP Director receives University of Colorado Distinguished Professor Award

Mars spacecraft, including MAVEN, reveal comet flyby effects on Martian atmosphere

LASP researchers to study origins, evolution of life in universe

New Earth-Observing Instrument Makes Successful Balloon Flight

Colorado aerospace leaders host program on MAVEN and Mars exploration

Latest CubeSat project strengthens partnership with aerospace industry

LASP instrument aboard NASA lunar mission set to impact moon

New study shows citizens count lunar craters on par with professionals

MAVEN on Track to Carry Out its Science Mission

MAVEN launched to study upper atmosphere of Mars

Get involved: MAVEN blast-off to Mars!

MAVEN haiku selected for travel to Mars

Send Your Name and Message to Mars with MAVEN

Kepler spacecraft discovers smallest “habitable zone” planets to date

LASP researcher leads study on migration of Mars volcanic activity