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.
Solar flares and geomagnetic storms can kill satellites and mess with GPS. A BU researcher […]
Lee Roberts and Dillon Brout honored for transformative achievements in physics and astronomy
Other research news, stories, and tidbits from around BU, including prestigious physics and health awards […]
Boston University’s healthcare research expertise was in high demand, while stories about engineers’ moon mission […]
Chuanfei Dong, a CAS assistant professor, is helping lead Mauve satellite’s study of stars’ bursts […]
The observatory is on a mission to understand Earth’s most distant layer of atmosphere, a […]
Aashi Parikh participated in the agency’s Student Airborne Research Program, learning how NASA scientists conduct […]
A telescope built by BU researchers hitches a ride on a private spacecraft and touches […]