UCF Expands Space Photonics Program with New Research Grants and Faculty Growth Plan Students and researchers with the passion to explore the final frontier have new opportunities at the College of Optics and Photonics.
3 UCF Students Honored with the 2024 Astronaut Scholarship The Astronaut Scholarship aims to inspire university students to pursue scientific excellence and maintain the United States’ leadership in technology and innovation.
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Marks New Chapter for Florida Space Industry The agreement highlights the partnership and serves as the official start to partnering activities, with Florida now the only state with a university consortium affiliated with one of NASA’s centers.
UCF Teacher Education Alumna Inspires Future Generations Through NASA Outreach Cat Toon ’13 encourages everyone to follow their passion and know they can explore opportunities in space and aeronautics from outside a traditional STEM field.
NASA Selects Firefly Aerospace to Deliver UCF’s Lunar-VISE Payload to the Moon Firefly Aerospace is one of the American vendors NASA is partnering with to deliver payloads to the lunar surface through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
James Webb Space Telescope Offers Best Glimpse Ever Into the Icy Planetesimals of the Early Solar System New studies of trans-Neptunian objects reveal how their colors and surface reflectance today are linked to their formation locations in the early solar system.
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.
Research in 60 Seconds: A Tiny Technology to Neutralize Radiation Professor of Medicine Melanie Coathup’s research examines how nanotechnology can be used to prevent injuries due to radiation.
Space Florida Announces Launch of Florida University Space Research Consortium This partnership among Florida’s leading space research and higher education institutions will fuel innovative research and maintain Florida’s position as a leader in national space policy and space technology research initiatives.
