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As the telescope reaches its destination at the end of January, UCF Planetary Scientist Noemi Pinilla-Alonso prepares to complete more than 100 hours of research once it arrives.

UCF’s Top 10 research stories focused on work that battled threats and sought out opportunities to advance us as a species.

UCF is part of Blue Origins’ Orbital Reef project, one of three proposals NASA selected to develop space destinations within our lifetime.

The Biggest Dream, which debuts Dec. 1 in Puerto Rico, is a film that shares the legacy of one of mankind’s scientific wonders.

Phil Metzger ’00MS’05PhD, a planetary scientist with nearly 30 years of experience at NASA, shares stories from working on the space shuttle missions, his controversial research on whether Pluto is a planet, and what the future of space exploration will look like. 

UCF researchers are working with private companies to develop some intriguing ways to get astronauts to the moon safely.

Data collected at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico was used to determine which asteroid would be target of NASA’s first test to deflect an asteroid.

The fellowship means Jessica Baker ’20 will travel to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama to study alternative fuels.

UCF is one step closer to becoming the first American university to have a research center named after the late, world-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen W. Hawking.