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Mars

Photo: Microbes under a microscope, they appear as red and scattered

Microbes

Microbes Reveal Clues About Extraterrestrial Life

April 16, 2025

Photo: Chuanfei Dong, a Southeast Asian man wearing glasses and a dark blue-gray collared shirt, smiles and poses next to a a wall hanging explaining the workings of a planet.

Accolades

BU Astronomer Wins Department of Energy Early Career Research Award

August 17, 2023

Photo: Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano erupts in the background as Peter Schroedl, a person wearing black clothes, a face mask, orange neon vest collects specimens from volcanic rocks in the foreground.

Microbes

What Microbes Can Tell Us about Life on Earth and in Space

April 24, 2023

A photo of the LEXI telescope in front of a full moon. A video play button is overlayed.

Space Sciences

BU-Made Telescope Going to the Moon in 2023

April 12, 2021

Brian Walsh of the Boston University Center for Space Physics works on the LEXI x-ray imager in his lab

Space Sciences

A BU X-ray Instrument Is Heading to the Moon

July 2, 2019

Space Sciences

Female Scientists React Before—and After—NASA’s All-Women Spacewalk Was Canceled

April 3, 2019

Thomas Zurbuchen, addressing a crowd gathered at BU’s Barristers Hall, talked about NASA’s current and future space missions. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Space Sciences

If Traveling to Space Was as Easy as Traveling to Paris

December 18, 2018

NASA artistic rendering of the InSight Lander vehicle on the Mars surface.

Mars

Another Mars Landing! But What Now?

November 29, 2018

MAVEN Mars satellite, NASA

Mars

Where Did Mars’ Water Go?

October 20, 2016

John T. Clarke, Director, Boston University for Space Physics, MAVEN Mars satellite

Mars

Mission to Mars

January 22, 2015

Mission to Mars