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Astronomy

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LEXI Moon Mission

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

February 13, 2025

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LEXI Moon Mission

We Have Liftoff: BU Telescope Heads for the Moon

January 15, 2025

Illustration of a moon lander that will carry the LEXI device from space to the lunar surface

LEXI Moon Mission

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

January 9, 2025

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Undergraduate Research

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

November 18, 2024

Photo: A picture of Earth surrounded by many stars with a magnified version of the same image in a circle at the bottom right

Heliosphere

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

June 10, 2024

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LISTEN NOW

Explain This! How Do Planets Form?

May 13, 2024

Photo: A total solar eclipse photographed by NASA in 2017

Astronomy

Alum Has Traveled the World to Witness Total Solar Eclipses

April 4, 2024

Illustration of the path of the 2024 total solar eclipse provided by NASA. Shows the United States in a mercator map projection with a thin black band running from Texas up to Northern Maine, where the eclipse can best be viewed

2024 Total Eclipse

Tips to Watch and Photograph the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse Safely

March 29, 2024

Photo: A new image of a supermassive black hole. There are orange swirls that are surrounded by darkness

Black Holes

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

March 27, 2024

Photo: A composite image three people--on the left, a man with a blazer with his arms crossed and dark hair, in the middle, a man with short dark hair, glasses, and a collared cotton shirt, and on the right, a woman with long brown hair and a dark shirt.

Accolades

Three BU Scholars Receive 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships

February 20, 2024

Photo: Interior of the Perkins Telescope Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. An enormous telescope is shown inside a large, steel framed-dome.

Science & Technology

BU’s Perkins Telescope Observatory Reopens with a Brand-New Dome

September 28, 2023

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Accolades

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

August 23, 2023

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: A ufo is shown flying over some trees on a cloudy, foggy day. It is shown as a small shadow hovering over the nature scene.

UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS

Is the Government Concealing UFO Craft and Dead Extraterrestrials?

June 22, 2023

A photo showing the curvature of the earth from the International Space Station. Photo by NASA via Unsplash

Astronomy

Astronomy Class Ponders Life Beyond Earth

March 3, 2023

Catherine Espaillat, Vivek Goyal, and Malika Jeffries-EL were all honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Photos by Cydney Scott

Accolades

These BU Researchers Were Just Named AAAS Fellows

January 31, 2023

Photo: ENG professor of electrical and computer engineering, Josh Semeter poses for photo in his lab on Wednesday, January 20, 2016. A white man with silver grey hair sits with hands folded in front of him and resting on a desk cluttered with papers, wires, and various hardware constructs. He wears a dark green sweater. A lab filled with random mechanics is shown behind him as a large blue and white spaceship banner hangs on the wall behind him.

UFO

BU Astrophysicist Joins NASA Team to Study UFOs

November 21, 2022

Julius Schiller’s depiction of St. Joseph, the ideal husband and father in the Holy Family. Credit: Mendillo Collection

Arts & Culture

A Scientist Ponders Religious Depictions of the Stars

November 4, 2022

Image Collage: From left to right, headshots of Hugo Javier Aparicio, Diana M. Ceballos, Catherine Espaillat, Raul Garcia, Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Daniel Jacobson López, and Maria C. Olivares.

Latinx Researchers

Seven BU Latinx Researchers Making a Difference

October 3, 2022

NASA astronaut Bob Hines (ENG’97) demonstrated space acrobatics with the help of fellow astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during a live downlink from the International Space Station to the George Sherman Union’s Metcalf Ballroom on Wednesday.

Science & Technology

Live from Space, BU Alum and Astronaut Bob Hines Talks Gravity, Lasagna, NASA Careers

July 20, 2022

Live from Space, BU Alum and Astronaut Bob Hines Talks Gravity, Lasagna, NASA Careers