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Photo: A wooded area with an eerie aura, a UFO hovers in the air on the right side.

Voices & Opinion

New Film The Age of Disclosure Alleges Government Cover-Up of UFOs, but BU Expert Is Skeptical

March 24, 2025

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: 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

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

An illustration by Sky & Telescope that depicts where certain planets will be in the sky on June 24th

Astronomy

Want to See Five Planets with Your Naked Eye This Week?

June 21, 2022

Listen Now

With Space Tourism a Reality, Will Civilians Travel to Space? And When?

September 16, 2021

Space

Janet Petro Is First Woman to Lead NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

July 16, 2021

Black and white image from video provided by the Department of Defense labelled Gimbal, from 2015, an unexplained object is seen at center as it is tracked as it soars high along the clouds, traveling against the wind. Numbers in white are seen around the edge of the image.

unidentified objects

Are UFOs Visitors from Space? Government Report Won’t Rule It Out

June 11, 2021

The rocket carrying mini-sensors developed by BU students on the launch pad in New Zealand before liftoff

Space

University’s Student-Built Satellites Blast into Space after Years of Delays

June 17, 2020

Image of white blocks on a bright red background; blocks say February 29.

Astronomy

The Science behind Leap Year

February 28, 2020

Portrait of Dani LeBlanc in the Hayden Planetarium

Science & Technology

Does Stargazing Alum Dani LeBlanc Have the Coolest Job in Boston?

October 28, 2019

A man gazes through a telescope at the Judson B. Coit Observatory

Astronomy

Behind the Scenes at BU: Coit Observatory

October 2, 2019

The Charles Hayden Planetarium

Science & Technology

To Do Today: The Museum of Science Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

July 19, 2019

Space

As the World Marks the 50th Anniversary of Man’s Landing on the Moon, BU Scientists Ponder the Next Big Space Discoveries

July 18, 2019

satellite image of Boston, MA

Climate Change

Orbiting NASA Instrument to Examine Boston’s Carbon Emissions, Plant Life

May 14, 2019

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. Credit: EHT Collaboration

Astronomy

The First Black Hole Image Is Here

April 11, 2019

Space Sciences

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

April 3, 2019

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

Mars

Another Mars Landing! But What Now?

November 29, 2018

Gilliland Observatory

Boston

Astronomy After Hours at the Museum of Science Tonight

July 6, 2018

Messier 1

University News

Lost in Space

April 23, 2018

Lost in Space

BU Clubs

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