Space Sciences

Space Sciences

Is There Life on Other Planets? BU Astronomer Helping Lead New Mission Seeking Hints of Life in Space

NASA Telescope Launch

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Launches into Space—with a Device Created by BU Students on Board

Space Sciences

The Moon Landing That Made Boston University History

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Six BU Researchers and Scholars

LEXI Moon Mission

What Is BU Doing on the Moon?

LEXI Moon Mission

Success! BU Telescope Lands on the Moon Aboard NASA’s Blue Ghost Mission 1

LEXI Moon Mission

Spacecraft Carrying BU Telescope to the Moon Captures Breathtaking Images of Earth

LEXI Moon Mission

We Have Liftoff: BU Telescope Heads for the Moon

LEXI Moon Mission

NASA Moon Mission Will Use BU X-Ray Telescope to Study Earth’s Magnetic Field

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

Undergraduate Research

Written in the Stars: How a BU Undergrad Rediscovered Her Passion for Space Science

Heliosphere

The Solar System May Have Passed through Dense Interstellar Cloud 2 Million Years Ago, Altering Earth’s Climate

LISTEN NOW

Explain This! How Do Planets Form?

Black Holes

Stunning New Image Shows Black Hole’s Immensely Powerful Magnetic Field

Accolades

BU Dark Matter Researcher Wins Award to Drive “Extraordinary Contributions” to Experimental Physics

Accolades

BU Astronomer Wins Department of Energy Early Career Research Award

Accolades

These BU Researchers Were Just Named AAAS Fellows

UFO

BU Astrophysicist Joins NASA Team to Study UFOs

Latinx Researchers

Seven BU Latinx Researchers Making a Difference

Astronomy

“A New Era of Discovery”: We Can Now See the Deepest Infrared View of Space Ever