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With at least eight institutions dedicated to solar and space physics, the city of Boulder is a global mecca for science related to the sun.

On the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder campus, a group of about 100 dedicated students are working hard in the Sounding Rocket Laboratory. Their goal: to send things into space.

Forty-five years ago, Vance Brand made history when he and his Apollo crew members met with Soviet cosmonauts in space, only to narrowly survive a near-fatal landing back on Earth.

Patrick Pischulti helped NASA design a spacesuit for the newest generation of astronauts.

A metal-extracting bacterium could change mining as we know it.

The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences includes a bioastronautics lab, a payload operations center with a real-time communications link to the International Space Station and an indoor drone testing space.

Monday, Aug. 26 marked the first day of school for ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ students, and the opening of the university's new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building.

Laurie Cantillo, NASA communicator and educator, is on a mission to get more people engaged in science — especially girls.

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ scientists have been involved in learning about our neighbor in the solar system since at least the 1960s.

The former NASA chief technologist and current ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ engineering dean discusses the moon, Mars and why we should think there's life on other planets.