Space
- On July 14, 2015, more than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour.
- Students in “Pathway to Space,” the gateway course for CU Boulder’s space minor, released 170 balloons in January.
- A new way of measuring elevation in the U.S. will yield the most accurate results yet — but might cost Colorado a couple 14ers.
- Boulder named happiest city, Cassini's dramatic end, a dance legend and new marijuana research.
- Jill Seubert had done everything possible to ensure their calculations and directions were correct.
- CU Boulder’s aerospace engineers are preparing to lift off from central campus and land squarely in a burgeoning innovation hub on East Campus.
- CU astronomer Doug Duncan has some advice about this summer's total eclipse: Don't miss it.
- NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is about to become humanity’s first emissary to Pluto. Alan Stern has the insider view.