Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
- A CU 麻豆影院 planetary scientist is this year鈥檚 recipient of the Richard H. Emmons award for 鈥榚xtraordinary teaching鈥
- Claire Lamman, the college鈥檚 spring 2019 outstanding graduate, turned out to be much better at science than she鈥檇 thought possible
- A record setting number of CU 麻豆影院 students have earned Brooke Owens Fellowships to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration.
- In both the classroom and the lab, the 麻豆影院 is a great place to learn physics and other natural sciences, according to the American Physical Society.
- In recognition of their exceptional service, teaching and research, three members of the 麻豆影院 faculty聽have been named 2018 Professors of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Scientists have found what may be the universe鈥檚 lost sock at the back of the dryer鈥攁nswering a long-running mystery that astrophysicists have dubbed the 鈥渕issing baryon problem.鈥
- Bumper car-like interactions at the edges of our solar system鈥攁nd not a mysterious ninth planet鈥攎ay explain the the dynamics of strange bodies called 鈥渄etached objects,鈥 according to a new study.
- At 6:51 p.m. on April 18, a rocket carrying NASA鈥檚 latest space satellite, called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), blasted off from Cape Canaveral. CU 麻豆影院 Assistant Professor Zach Berta-Thompson was there. He called the experience 鈥渢errifying but incredible.鈥
- Researchers at CU 麻豆影院 have completed an unprecedented 鈥渄issection鈥 of twin galaxies in the final stages of merging.
- Researchers have caught a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy snacking on gas and then "burping"鈥攏ot once, but twice.