OSIRIS-REx Mission to Take a Few More Pictures Before Heading Home

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that collected a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth in October, is going to take one final look at the collection site before heading...

Coastal Changes Worsen Nuisance Flooding on Many U.S. Shorelines, Study Finds

Nuisance flooding has increased on U.S. coasts in recent decades due to sea-level rise, and new research co-authored by the University of Central Florida uncovered an additional reason for its...

Toy Telescope Launches Career Hunting for Life on Exoplanets

It all started with an inexpensive toy telescope Theodora Karalidi’s father gave her when she was five years old. “I looked through it and I was wowed,” says Karalidi, an...

UCF Researcher is Part of Team that Will Send Rotorcraft to Saturn’s Moon, Titan

The helicopter that arrived on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as part of the Mars 2020/Perseverance mission is not the only rotorcraft NASA is sending into space. A team...

UCF Joins Project to Develop Composites for Spacecraft, NASA Missions

Sometimes big things come in small packages, and the new thin but strong materials the University of Central Florida is helping NASA develop are no exception. These materials, known as...

Charge On, it’s National Battery Day

Far from the triple As you have to scramble to find during hurricane season, the battery technology being developed at UCF is much more advanced than the daily essentials. Professor...

New UCF Study Examines Leeches for Role in Major Disease of Sea Turtles in Florida

University of Central Florida researchers are homing in on the cause of a major disease of sea turtles, with some of their latest findings implicating saltwater leeches as a possible...

NSF Awards UCF $2.9 Million to Train Next Generation of Cybersecurity Defenders

The University of Central Florida has been awarded a nearly $2.9 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to provide cybersecurity scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students. Scholarship recipients...

NASA Selects UCF Honeybee-inspired Spacesuit Material Design for Further Development

NASA has selected a University of Central Florida nanotechnology team as one of seven university groups from around the country tasked with developing ways to stop the negative effects of...

UCF Funds Second Round of $1 million SEED Initiative to Support Faculty Research

Thirty-seven UCF teams will split $1 million in UCF SEED funding to conduct preliminary research the university hopes will lead to bigger individual grants from other agencies and breakthroughs in...