Recipients of the 2024-25 Seed Funding Program Announced The program awarded a total of $500,000 to 21 new projects. This is the fourth year the program has been available to UCF faculty and researchers.
Uncovering a Centaur’s Tracks: UCF Scientists Examine Unique Asteroid-Comet Hybrid UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” in space sharing properties of both a comet and an asteroid, giving clues to our Solar System’s origins in a newly published study.
UCF’s 27 Best Photos of 2024 From groundbreaking research to commencement and game day excitement, revisit the year’s standout moments in this photo collection.
UCF Is a Top Research University in Florida and Nationwide A report from the U.S. National Science Foundation highlight’s UCF research prowess amongst a multitude of disciplines.
UCF Fuels America’s Space Program with Innovative Education, Medicine and Tech UCF is advancing cutting-edge space research while offering unique opportunities for students to launch their careers in the space industry.
UCF Scientists Study Starship Launchpad in Preparation for Future NASA Lunar Missions Planetary Scientist Phil Metzger ’00MS ’05PhD and doctoral candidate Brandon Dotson analyzed samples and data from the first SpaceX Starship launchpad blast to determine methods of improving lunar launches.
Robot Rovers on the “Moon”: Lunabotics Challenge Preps Students for Space Careers College teams, including a group of Knights, will build robot rovers and compete at the new Regolith Bin at UCF’s Exolith Lab before the best crews advance to finals at Kennedy Space Center.
The Idyllic Spot to Study the Sky After the collapse of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, researchers from the Florida Space Institute found new ways — and a new place — to conduct critical space sciences.
UCF Scientists Use James Webb Space Telescope to Uncover Clues About Neptune’s Evolution Ana Carolina de Souza Feliciano and Noemí Pinilla-Alonso are part of a team that studies unique spectral properties of small celestial bodies beyond Neptune within the Kuiper Belt.
UCF Ranks 21st in U.S. Public Universities for Patents with 57 New Inventions in 2023 This is the 11th year that UCF has ranked in the top 100 universities in the world for patents.
