UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

Mayonnaise is having a moment far beyond the sandwich. In orbit and on the lab bench, scientists are turning this everyday condiment into a precision tool to probe how complex fluids behave in ...

Almost every image that will be taken by future space observatories in low-Earth orbit could be tainted due to light contamination from satellites. That is according to a new analysis from researchers ...

The discovery could hold the key to the origin of supermassive black holes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The hungriest known ...

Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via ...

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 ...

California professor Bethany Ehlmann will be the first woman to lead the university’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics as its next director, the University of Colorado Boulder announced on ...

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Recent theoretical advances have underscored the significance of momentum space geometry in the realm of relativistic physics. Traditional notions of flat momentum space are being re-evaluated in ...

The exotic chemistry of planetary and interstellar space produces a bouquet of unusual aromas — if only there were air in space in which to smell them. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Robert Hazen and Michael Wong discuss their bold proposal for a new law of nature, centered around the idea that information is as fundamental to the cosmos as mass, energy or charge. Mirror Molecules ...