Space
- Kepler, which is operated by Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), discovered more than 2,600 planets during its nine years in space.
- Ann-Marie Madigan has been named a 2018 Packard Fellow, an award that comes with a no-strings-attached grant of $875,000.
- Scientists have successfully collected dust raining down from Saturn's rings onto the planet's upper atmosphere.
- Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researchers have proposed a new satellite that would orbit the moon to seek out signals from the cosmic "dark ages."
- Scientists on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission have stitched together a selfie of the spacecraft from 21 different ultraviolet images.
- The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission captured a "first light" image of the sun rising over the Western Hemisphere.
- Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researchers and engineers have played a major role in designing the Parker Solar Probe, one of the "riskiest" NASA missions in decades.
- Research pioneered at JILA is now up and running on a NASA experiment to explore exotic states of matter on the International Space Station.
- Researchers throw cold water on a staple question of science fiction: Can humans transform Mars into a more Earth-like planet?
- Researchers at Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder will soon set their sights on the heliosphere, a massive bubble in space that surrounds our solar system and shields it from incoming radiation.