space News

When humans embark on spaceflights, our health will depend on medical experts with unique skillsets — experts like Emmanuel Urquieta and the students trained in UCF’s new aerospace medicine program.

Associate Provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy Greg Autry shares how UCF’s future space business program will be an unparalleled gateway for students in every field into a soon to be multi-trillion-dollar industry.

Students and researchers with the passion to explore the final frontier have new opportunities at the College of Optics and Photonics.

The Astronaut Scholarship aims to inspire university students to pursue scientific excellence and maintain the United States’ leadership in technology and innovation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

From groundbreaking research to commencement and game day excitement, revisit the year’s standout moments in this photo collection.