UCF-Led Team Receives $19.2 Million Army Research Office Award to Advance the Science of Light A five-year research program will explore new ways to understand and control light traveling through turbulent and complex environments, while helping launch a new chapter for UCF鈥檚 Townes Laser Institute.
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鈥� leadership in technology and innovation.
NASA Selects Firefly Aerospace to Deliver UCF鈥檚 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.
UCF Fuels America鈥檚 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 Receives Prestigious Keck Foundation Award to Advance Spintronics Technology The work could change the future of electronics, making them faster and more energy efficient.
2 Promising UCF Researchers Earn 2024 NSF CAREER Awards Early-career professors Fan Yao and Li Fang are receiving significant research funding to continue catalyzing their work as part of an annual NSF grant program.
UCF Student鈥檚 Primitive Asteroids Work Provides Context for Further Research, Future NASA Missions Brittany Harvison studied the composition of families of ancient asteroids to better understand the history of our solar system and if they may have carried water to Earth.
New Study of Comets Provides Insight into Chemical Composition of Early Solar System Data from 25 comets were compiled to test predictions of solar system formation and evolution.
NASA Selects UCF for $35 Million Mission to the Moon鈥檚 Mysterious Gruithuisen Domes The mission will explore a region of the moon never before visited and may identify minerals and chemical resources available for future exploration.
