From Scientific American: Any way you slice it, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the boldest, highest-stakes gambles in the space agency’s storied history. Just building and testing the observatory has proved to be a dauntingly complex technological enterprise, pushing the observatory’s astronomical price tag to nearly...
From BBC The Inquiry: Governing moon miners, asteroid hunters and space junk sounds pretty tricky, but we better get our act together. This year the majority of space launches included commercial enterprises. Space is no longer just the playground of governments but companies; companies that want to mine the moon...
From American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: Little consensus exists among scientists and policymakers about the best strategy for getting humans into orbit around Mars and someday to the surface. The Trump administration and a re-established U.S. National Space Council are expected to take yet another look at a possible...
From Popular Mechanics: They met with astrophysicist Jack Burns, a member of President Trump's NASA transition team, to learn alittle about what we can expect from the agency moving forward. If you feel like NASA's been in limbo lately, you're not alone. "NASA has been kind of stuck for much...
From 9News: Jessica Oh from 9News interviews Dr. Jack Burns and Keith Tauscher who are part of the team at the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and NASA who are researching building observatories on the Moon. Watch the video...
From Popular Mechanics: From probing the Dark Ages of the universe to building a telescope on the moon, pinpointing the light of the first star will be no easy task. Jack Burns is interested in the Dark Ages of the universe. His primary research team—consisting of 22 scientists from CU,...
From ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Today: A ²ÊÃñ±¦µä team has entered into a five-year, $3.5-million cooperative agreement with NASA to become part of a virtual institute to pursue the construction of astronomical observatories on the moon. The research team, led by Professor Jack Burns of the Department of Astrophysical...
From NASA: NASA Selects New Research Teams to Further Solar System Exploration Research In an effort to advance basic and applied research for lunar and planetary science, and advance human exploration of the solar system through scientific discovery, NASA created the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute or SSERVI. The...