From CPR News Colorado Matters: This year is shaping up to be a critical year in space development. NASA is headed back to the moon and private companies are getting into the action like never before. We speak with astronomer Doug Duncan, who is back for our regular conversation on...
From ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Today: The Fiske Planetarium at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä is headed Forward! To the Moon. This Friday, the planetarium will host the public premier of a new science film—a 30-minute adventure into the Artemis Program, NASA’s campaign to send human and robotic astronauts to the surface of the moon...
From Space.com: The international scientific community has long been discussing the need to keep the far side of the moon free from human-made radio frequency intrusion. Doing so can make possible observations of the unexplored early epochs of the universe known as the dark ages and cosmic dawn, scientists say...
From Sky & Telescope: Radio wavelengths give astronomers access to an unseen universe, from stellar flares to jets launched from supermassive black holes. But arguably, we have yet to take advantage of the best place in the inner solar system for low-frequency radio astronomy: the Moon. The lunar farside always...
From Leonard David’s Inside Outer Space: Earth’s Moon is being eyed as an on-location locale for operating unique and novel observatories. The just-concluded NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium was the setting for reviewing several NIAC-backed studies. One concept outlined at NIAC is the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on...
From Science: Next year, NASA’s first mission to the lunar surface in 50 years will be run from an unlikely place: a low-slung building wedged between fast-food joints just off the Ohio River. This unassuming former data center in Pittsburgh is the new home of Astrobotic, one of a few...
From Forbes: Let’s do astronomy from the Moon. Spurred on by the collapse of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, the continuing degradation of the night sky by light pollution and the coming era of mega-constellations of satellites come four projects that seek to take astronomy to the Moon’s...
From CU Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine: Jack O. Burns, a professor of astrophysics and professor of physics at the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä, has been elected to the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), the group has announced. Membership in the exclusive organization requires election by academy peers. IAA members...
From WIRED: The universe is constantly beaming its history to us. For instance: Information about what happened long, long ago, contained in the long-length radio waves that are ubiquitous throughout the universe, likely hold the details about how the first stars and black holes were formed. There’s a problem, though...
From UPI: NASA scientists, as well as astronomers around the world, plan to install lunar observatories in the next few years to peer into the universe's ancient past -- just after the Big Bang. Science equipment headed to the moon already includes a spectrometer built for launch in early 2022,...