Space
- CU Boulder researchers find that violent crashes may be more effective at activating black holes than more peaceful mergers.Â
- Bumper car-like interactions at the edges of our solar system, not a mysterious ninth planet, may explain the the dynamics of strange bodies called "detached objects," according to a new study.
- Researchers have discovered a single species of bacteria living in a volcanic lake that may rank as one of the harshest environments on Earth.
- CU Boulder Assistant Professor Zach Berta-Thompson was on the ground in Florida to watch the launch of NASA's latest mission to hunt for worlds outside of Earth's solar system.
- Researchers in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Science have completed an unprecedented "dissection"Â of twin galaxies in the final stages of merging.
- A NASA-funded satellite will study the inner radiation belt of Earth's magnetosphere, providing insight into the energetic particles that can disrupt satellites and threaten spacewalking astronauts.
- A team that includes a CU Boulder astronomer has detected a signal from stars emerging in the early universe.
- The moon's excessive equatorial bulge, frozen into place over 4 billion years ago, may contain secrets of Earth's early history.
- During post-galactic merger periods, orbiting stars can be flung into supermassive black holes and destroyed at a rate of one per year.
- NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument, built by CU Boulder, will study space weather in the Earth's upper atmosphere.