space News

NASA project to use sunglasses polarization technology to create a catalog of wavelengths to look for when searching the galaxy for exoplanets.

Estela Fernández-Valenzuela, a preeminent post doctoral researcher at the Florida Space Institute wins a highly competitive NASA grant.

A detailed structural model of the current state of the entire telescope began Aug. 17 and is expected to be completed within the next two weeks.

Students enrolled in this semester’s Comets, Asteroids and Meteorites class will get a behind-the-scenes experience thanks to physics Professor Humberto Campins, who is teaching remotely from the site of mission control for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx.

The National Science Foundation facility is closed while engineers review the damage and assess the extent of repairs that will be needed to bring the telescope back online.

International team makes discovery using the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory’s powerful radio telescope, which is managed by the University of Central Florida.

For June 30’s day of observance, here’s a special nod to the eight asteroids making waves in the solar system — just like their UCF faculty namesakes.

A UCF team creates a geological model that will give prospectors a better idea of where the moon may hide its water ice, which may play a role in future human exploration of the solar system.

UCF faculty and alumni share their thoughts about university’s ties to space industry’s past and its future.