Space
Who controls the satellites we see at night? Nearly 25 CU undergrads monitor four of them, collecting critical information about the Earth, sun and our galaxy.
Fifty years ago, Scott Carpenter became the fourth American to fly in space before landing dramatically in the Atlantic Ocean 250 miles off course. His pioneering work laid the foundation for five decades of space exploration.
The dawn of the space age and the creation of the Peace Corps set the stage for graduates of 1962. Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano describes their impact on today.
Paul Danish contemplates the 50th anniversary of Scott Carpenter's flight.
As the country’s final space shuttle soared into space in July to heightened levels of excitement on the Florida coast, bone loss was the subject of one of five experiments CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Bioserve Space Technologies sent aloft on Atlantis.
Christine Fanchiang wants to go to space. The key to fulfilling that dream is a wood and fiberglass mock-up of the Dream Chaser in the Engineering Center.
With help from CU students, scientists have discovered the first Earth-sized planet outside our solar system.
Mars may have been home to an ocean and microbial life, according to CU scientists Brian Hynek and Gaetano Di Achille.
50 students, mostly from aerospace engineering, are working to build a 5-pound spacecraft the size of a loaf of bread that will give scientists a better understanding of solar flares and other so-called space weather.