Category Aerospace | Research News Center

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in Orbit Around the Moon (Artist's Concept)

July 18, 2025

Georgia Tech Study Hopes to Prevent Cislunar Collisions as Moon Missions Increase

8 min read

A Georgia Tech study warns that rising lunar traffic could lead to costly collision avoidance maneuvers, urging better coordination to manage growing risks in cislunar space.

An illustration of the binary black hole merger. (Image credit: Raul Perez and Davis Newell)

July 15, 2025

LIGO Detects Most Massive Binary Black Hole to Date

5 min read

Before merging, both black holes were spinning exceptionally fast, and their masses fell into a range that should be very rare — or impossible.

July 9, 2025

GTRI Will be Prominent Partner With New Space Research Institute, Says Executive Director Jud Ready

5 min read

SRI will become the center of all things space-related at the Institute. It will work in partnership with academics, business partners, philanthropists, students, and governments.

July 1, 2025

Georgia Tech Launches Two New Interdisciplinary Research Institutes

5 min read

By uniting experts across disciplines, Georgia Tech is positioning itself at the forefront of neuroscience and space research.

June 30, 2025

Ready Named Inaugural Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Space Research Institute

3 min read

Effective July 1, Ready will serve as the inaugural executive director of Georgia Tech’s new Space Research Institute, which will officially launch on the same date.

the planet mars with a satellite flying in front of it

June 25, 2025

Mars Rising as the New Frontier of Science and Strategy

4 min read

As the White House accelerates plans for a 2026 crewed mission to Mars, Georgia Tech experts highlight the engineering, scientific, and diplomatic challenges that will shape the success—and sustainability—of humanity’s next giant leap.

A view of Jezero Mons from the publication. The mountain is ~21 km across.

June 5, 2025

Volcano 'Hidden in Plain Sight' Could Help Date Mars — and its Habitability

5 min read

Georgia Tech scientists have uncovered evidence that a mountain on the rim of Jezero Crater — where NASA’s Perseverance Rover is currently collecting samples for possible return to Earth — is likely a volcano.

Jud Ready holds a sample of a perovskite solar cell, along with other samples similar to those launched to the International Space Station. (Photo: Branden Camp)

May 19, 2025

10 Questions with Jud Ready

4 min read

Ready had hoped earning his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in materials science and engineering at Georgia Tech would lead him to a spot in NASA’s Astronaut Corps. Instead, it’s led him to GTRI, where his passion for space is alive and well.

May 19, 2025

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe One Asteroid at a Time

4 min read

Masatoshi Hirabayashi will utilize data from ancient asteroids to gain a deeper understanding of the history of space.

VENUSIAN team travels to Hawaii to field test autofluorescence nephelometer

May 16, 2025

Preparing to Study Venus’ Clouds

7 min read

Georgia Tech braves an active volcano to field test an instrument for a private space mission to Venus.

A piece of meteorite inside a glass jar.

May 15, 2025

Georgia Tech Offers New Astrobiology Minor

4 min read

Ivan Allen College scholars will teach classes in the new minor.

May 2, 2025

Yuri's Day 2025: Shaping the Future of Space Research

3 min read

Hosted by Georgia Tech’s Space Research Initiative (SRI), Yuri’s Day serves as an annual celebration of space research across the Institute, the state of Georgia, and beyond.

Trenton Gantt and Hugh (Ka Yui) Chen work together in the lab

May 1, 2025

Propelling Georgia Tech to the Final Frontier

5 min read

New space IRI and commercialization activities showcase space as an exciting destination for students and faculty.

February 28, 2025

New lunar sample research could help protect astronauts and uncover the origins of water on the moon

6 min read

New NASA-funded research by Georgia Tech offers fresh insights into the phenomenon of space weathering.

Tim Lieuwen, Executive Vice President for Research

February 20, 2025

Tim Lieuwen Named Georgia Tech’s Executive Vice President for Research

3 min read

The Regents’ Professor and current interim EVPR brings strong leadership and deep research expertise to the role.

February 19, 2025

AE Professor Masatoshi Hirabayashi Studies Compelling Way to Deflect Asteroids From Earth

4 min read

A Georgia Tech study analyzes NASA’s DART mission and proposes an innovative approach for kinetic deflection.

a rendering of two CubeSats in space, beaming light

February 13, 2025

Turning to CubeSats in the Search for Life Thousands of Light-Years from Earth

1 min read

A new NASA-funded project will have Georgia Tech aerospace engineers developing new technology to one day study planets outside our solar system.

January 23, 2025

Georgia Tech Space Research Institute Begins Search for Executive Director

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The internal search will identify an inaugural executive director for the new Interdisciplinary Research Institute.

October 1, 2024

Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines Announces New Initiative Leads

9 min read

We hope that initiative leads will act as the “faculty face” of IRIM and communicate IRIM’s vision and activities to audiences both within and outside of Georgia Tech.

September 19, 2024

Award-Winning Algorithm Used on Mars Rover Helps Scientists on Earth See Data in a New Way

4 min read

Ph.D student Austin P. Wright wins a best paper runner-up award at an international conference for an algorithm used on the Mars Perseverance Rover than can be used in applications in earth science and other fields.