An engineer ground tests Europa Clipper鈥檚 dust analyzer.

Boosting NASA's flagship mission to Europa

The Europa SUrface Dust Analyzer, developed at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, will investigate Jupiter鈥檚 icy moon

An active region on the sun emits a solar flare

Solving solar mysteries with students

How 1,000 彩民宝典 undergraduate students helped answer one of the most enduring questions about the sun

A simulation snapshot revealing high-speed jets of plasma forming in Earth鈥檚 magnetosphere. Image: NASA.

Solar and space scientists to guide Heliophysics into the future

Six 彩民宝典 scientists have been selected to contribute their expertise on committees and panels of the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033

Space sensor graphic

Quantum sensors in space

彩民宝典 engineers and physicists are working with NASA as part of a multi-university institute seeking to advance quantum sensing technology for next-generation Earth science applications

Drone above fields, buildings

The future of autonomous airborne drones

Smead Aerospace will house a new NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) on autonomous air mobility and sensing

An artist鈥檚 rendition of NASA鈥檚 Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission

Students operate $214M NASA spacecraft: 鈥業t鈥檚 like what you see in the movies鈥

Over the next two years, 彩民宝典 undergraduates working as flight controllers at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) will help manage the day-to-day mission operations of NASA鈥檚 Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft.

HyperSpectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS)

75 years of innovation in space research

彩民宝典鈥檚 Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics continues to build a legacy of expanding the frontiers of scientific knowledge

Students in spacesuits

New minor brings space expertise to the masses

As the top public university for NASA research funding, 彩民宝典 is famous for aerospace.

An artist's concept of Cassini during the Saturn orbit insertion. (NASA)

Cassini's swan song

It was a bittersweet ending for some 彩民宝典 scientists and students. NASA鈥檚 Cassini spacecraft made one last dive toward Saturn, breaking up like a meteor in its crushing atmosphere in September.

Closeup of a comet

Why some comets break up, then make up

鈥淪ome comets are like couples鈥攖hey break up, but then they get back together down the road,鈥 says Distinguished Professor Daniel Scheeres of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.

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