News Archive

CU Boulder, LASP welcome NASA leaders to campus

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

LASP hosts CU President Todd Saliman and other university leaders

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 names Dr. Pamela Millar its first deputy director for strategic development and communications

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

2022 awardees chosen for the Charles A. Barth Scholarship for undergraduate space research

Investigating monsoon-climate connections

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists envision what Mars would look like as an exoplanet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ESCAPE funded for Phase A concept study

LASP awarded Earth Venture Mission Libera

LASP scientists and teams receive NASA achievement medals

GOLD reveals unexpected changes in Earth’s nighttime ionosphere

An infrared close up of the moon

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

MAVEN sets its sights beyond Mars

From concept to satellite instrument in three months

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

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

Here comes the Sun: New spacecraft to fly closer than ever before

Mars terraforming not possible using present-day technology

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

LASP sounding rocket takes a second look at the Sun

GOES-17 shares first data from EXIS instrument

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

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”

TSIS shipped to Kennedy Space Center for upcoming launch

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

LASP will lead operations for NASA black holes mission

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

Sounding rocket EVE supports tune-up of SDO EVE instrument

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

Cassini Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust

Student Dust Counter got few “hits” during Pluto flyby

MAVEN Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere

LASP scientist elected AGU fellow

CU Boulder Students, Faculty Primed for July 14 Pluto Encounter

Moon engulfed in permanent, lopsided dust cloud

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

LASP cubesat will study the sun in soft X-rays

MAVEN spacecraft detects aurora and mysterious dust cloud around Mars

MMS launches to study magnetic reconnection

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

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

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

MAVEN spacecraft’s first look at Mars holds surprises

NASA Shares What MAVEN Spacecraft Has Seen in its First Few Weeks at Mars

LASP researchers to study origins, evolution of life in universe

MAVEN returns first Mars observations

LASP-led MAVEN mission enters orbit around Mars

New Earth-Observing Instrument Makes Successful Balloon Flight