Astronomy & Space
  • Article
  • Jun 15 2022

Results from two separate research studies, led by UK graduate and postdoctoral scholars, will be presented during the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) semiannual meeting this week.

  • Video
  • Mar 4 2022

The Kentucky Re-Entry Probe Experiment (KREPE) successfully gathered heat shield data with capsules built by College of Engineering students and faculty, with funding from NASA and the NASA Kentucky Space Grant Consortium and EPSCoR Programs.

  • Article
  • Feb 9 2022

Gary Ferland, professor of physics and astronomy in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, shares insights about the new observatory, how UK will be involved and what it means for helping humankind learn about its place in the universe.

  • Video
  • Aug 26 2021

The project continues UK's commitment to producing the next generation of aerospace engineers at NASA, and UK College of Engineering's contributions to space exploration.

  • Video
  • Jun 2 2021

Researchers at the University of Kentucky are working with NASA to advance key technologies for exploring the moon, Mars and beyond.

  • Article
  • Feb 9 2021

Ferland was honored for his work in developing and applying “Cloudy,” a special computer code that studies how light from distant celestial bodies is produced. “This award is a great honor, and is as much to UK as to me,” Ferland said.

  • Article
  • Nov 19 2020

"Our research is devoted to resolving the damage that might be caused by micrometeoroids or space dust. We are trying to determine whether we can use the old technology called ‘brazing’ to execute the process in real-time."

  • Article
  • Oct 20 2020

The lecture, titled “Deconstructing Space-Time,” will be held 7-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, on Zoom. Developments in theoretical physics over the past couple of decades have led to a set of ideas that "space" is not a fundamental notion, but arises as an emergent concept from more abstract entities.

  • Article
  • Sep 1 2020

“We operate as a single team, combining our expertise in order to tackle the complex multi-physics problems that arise in astrophysics — problems that are beyond the capacity of a single investigator.”

  • Article
  • Aug 4 2020

“Astronomy is an entirely observational science — we cannot do an experiment or make physical measurements. So we have to simulate what we observe with computers."