NASA Funds 2 UCF Projects Focused on Returning to the Moon The projects will help scientists better understand the nature of lunar dust so that its potentially damaging effects to equipment and spacecraft during lunar landings can be minimized.
Mars’ True Colors Show Thanks to UCF Invention The exciting and colorful images being beamed back from the planet Mars this past week should be true to life, thanks to the ingenuity of…
Milky Way Cupcakes: A Savior for NASA’s Non-manned Missions? Can Milky Way cupcakes, Saturn cake and chocolate chip Opportunity cookies prevent potentially deep cuts to NASA’s space exploration budget? With a possible $300 million…
Water Discovered on Second Asteroid Two teams of researchers who made national headlines in April for showing the first evidence of water ice and organic molecules on an asteroid have…
UCF Professor Elected Chair of Prestigious National Organization The DPS is the leading and largest professional association of planetary scientists in the world. Carl Sagan, who popularized astronomy, served as a chair of…