Faculty across fields at Boston University work with research scientists, visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students to pursue unique research into space, physics, instrumentation, planetary atmospheres, and more.
BU’s NASA-funded SHIELD team is on a quest to understand the heliosphere, our solar system's protective bubble.
Winners, recognized as “visionary scientists, scholars, writers, and artists,” will use honor to support work […]
Other research news, stories, and tidbits from around BU, including a fresh look at a […]
Undergraduate student Natalie Lett explains the scientific goals of the Boston University–developed LEXI telescope’s lunar […]
In an historic first for BU, the LEXI telescope is operating from the lunar surface […]
NASA’s Blue Ghost mission has finished orbiting Earth and is on its way to the […]
NASA’s Blue Ghost moon lander, carrying a BU-created X-ray telescope, blasts off into space.
LEXI (Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager) will be deployed and operate from the lunar surface […]
Astrophysics student Ariyana Bonab has studied the composition of 54,000 white dwarf stars-- but she […]