What would happen if you threw a paper airplane from the International Space Station? It’s just the sort of idea that might ...

The Sun is the source of energy for life on Earth and is the strongest modulator of the human physical environment. In fact, the Sun’s influence extends throughout the solar system, both through ...

Groundbreaking advances in solar and space physics have provided key insights into the inner workings of the heliosphere, the vast protective bubble formed by the solar wind that extends from the Sun ...

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

At its current solar maximum, our Sun has been pretty busy of late, flinging parts of itself at Earth and raising concerns about effects on satellites and power grids while also gracing us with ...

On January 22, 2025, physicists unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of the universe and potentially unlock the secrets of time travel. The existence of ...

Bolstering its longstanding collaboration with NASA, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder today enacted a collaborative Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Goddard Space ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly artificial neural networks, have proved to be highly promising tools for uncovering patterns in large amounts of data that would otherwise be ...

University of Colorado Boulder Dean of the Institutes Massimo Ruzzene has named Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) associate director for science Frank Eparvier as interim director of ...