Luis Zea and co-investigator Jesse Colangelo have earned a seed grant from CU Boulder's Research & Innovation Office to study the possibilities of mining with bacteria ("biomining") in space.

Inspired by the Apollo moon landings, the Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone (GLEE) will send 500 spacecraft small enough to fit in the palm of your hand to the moon by 2023.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this landmark event, CU Boulder is highlighting the stories of scientists and engineers from across the university who contributed to the first five decades of human space exploration—and who are paving the way for future journeys to the moon and beyond.

The IOD-1 GEMS satellite is the first in a planned fleet of Earth-orbiters that will one day record weather data at every point on the globe every 15 minutes. The project is a partnership between CU Boulder and Colorado-based Orbital Micro Systems (OMS).

The spacecraft has been nudged into a new, closer-in orbit around Mars. That circuit will allow MAVEN to split its time between continuing its scientific research and serving as a communications relay for NASA’s current and future Mars rovers.

When a distinguished group of Naval personnel casually dropped into this week’s AeroSpace Ventures (ASV) Research Blitz, it gave an unexpected boost to an event already packed with aerospace trailblazers from government, industry and academia.

NASA has named a University of Colorado Boulder team a finalist in a competition to design a greenhouse for use on Mars.

In 1948, William Pietenpol, the chair of physics at the University of Colorado, assembled a team of scientists and engineers for an ambitious venture: to launch an Aerobee rocket into the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere and collect new observations of the ultraviolet radiation emanating from the sun.

A little piece of Colorado is going to the moon. When NASA launches Orion EM-1 in 2020, its first mission to orbit the moon since 1972, experiments from CU Boulder will be aboard.

Researchers at CU Boulder are starting work on a new collaborative grant from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that will improve solar wind modeling.