Discover & Space

Mass media representations of space weather—variable conditions in space that can affect the technological systems modern society depends on—often evoke visions of catastrophic power grid failures and global chaos.

How many stars does a black hole eat? The answer to this riddle, at least for some supermassive black holes, is one per year.

What’s a feast without the occasional belch?

CU Boulder researchers are also investigating collisions between much smaller objects in space.

There’s no I in drone.

Students, including undergraduates, at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped solve a 60-year-old space mystery using a satellite the size of a shoebox.