December 10, 2025
Georgia Tech’s Space Research Institute Announces Inaugural Seed Grant Awardees
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Georgia Tech’s Space Research Institute has selected 17 teams for its inaugural CPI Seed Grant program, supporting space research efforts across the full spectrum of development.
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December 9, 2025
From Galaxy to Ground: How Space Research Shapes Everyday Life
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Satellites power everything from weather forecasts to global communications, and researchers at Georgia Tech’s Space Research Institute are advancing both the technology and international policies that keep them operating safely.
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December 1, 2025
Record-Breaking Simulation Boosts Rocket Science and Supercomputing to New Limits
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Inspired by SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster, a team led by Georgia Tech’s Spencer Bryngelson and New York University’s Florian Schäfer modeled the turbulent interactions of a 33-engine rocket. Their experiment set new records, running the largest ever fluid
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November 26, 2025
Boiling Mud and Frozen Flows: How Mars’ Atmosphere Shapes Its Sedimentary Landscapes
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New research is showing that atmospheric pressure shifts dramatically altered how mud and water flowed on Mars — sometimes boiling, sometimes freezing — offering fresh clues to reconstruct the planet's ancient climate and habitability.
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November 20, 2025
Georgia Tech Ranked No. 7 Globally in Interdisciplinary Science Rankings
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Georgia Tech has been ranked 7th in the world in the 2026 Times Higher Education Interdisciplinary Science Rankings
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November 13, 2025
Space Debris Struck a Chinese Spacecraft – How the Incident Could Be a Wake-up Call for International Collaboration
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China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft’s return from its Tiangong space station in early November 2025.
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October 29, 2025
New Leadership at the Georgia Tech Observatory
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The College of Sciences has named Paul Sell as the new director of the Georgia Tech Observatory. Sell joined the Institute in Fall 2025 as a senior academic professional in the School of Physics.
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October 27, 2025
Preparing for Europa: Deciphering Plasma Flows and Magnetic Fields Near Jupiter’s Icy Moon
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Professor Sven Simon is working to uncover critical information to support the rapid analysis of measurements from NASA's Europa Clipper mission.
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October 22, 2025
Four Scholars Named 2025–26 Georgia Tech Astrobiology Fellows
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Four Georgia Tech researchers have been selected as 2025–26 Astrobiology Fellows. Lea Adepoju, Juliana DiGiacomo, Ziyu Huang, and Lauren Paulson will explore questions about the origins of life and the search for it beyond Earth.
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October 14, 2025
Low Frequency Radio Lab Trio Go to Alaska for Atmospheric Research
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Ph.D. students Gus Richter, Malhar Tamhane, and Felipe Sandoval took part in the Polar Aeronomy and Radio Science program, taking advantage of the unique geography and equipment to work on their Ph.D. research.
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October 9, 2025
A Buried Solar Receiver to Melt Lunar Ice
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A NASA-funded team at Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a method to use heliostats to redirect sunlight into the Moon’s shadowed craters, extracting water from icy regolith.
October 1, 2025
Georgia Tech’s Space Research Institute Holds Inaugural Meeting
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Georgia Tech’s Space Research Institute (SRI) hosted its inaugural meeting on September 5, drawing more than 130 researchers from across campus to outline its vision, foster collaboration, and highlight the breadth of space research underway.
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September 29, 2025
Astrophysics Major and Minor Launched at Georgia Tech
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The undergraduate astrophysics program introduces students to the fundamental physical processes and laws that govern the cosmos. This foundational curriculum is complemented by training in computational and data analysis techniques.
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September 19, 2025
Mathematics Meets Rocket Science: Jaden Wang Awarded NASA Research Opportunity
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Wang has been awarded a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity to develop mathematically grounded solutions for landing spacecraft.
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September 15, 2025
CreationsVC Gift to Quadrant-i to Accelerate Space-Related Startups
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Gift to accelerate development of space-related and space-adjacent startup companies based on Georgia Tech IP
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August 27, 2025
Physics Student Wins NASA FINESST Grant for Black Hole Research
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J. Cole Faggert, a Ph.D. student in the School of Physics, will use multi-wavelength imaging to study supermassive black holes and the physics of their plasma flows.
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August 4, 2025
Two Georgia Tech Students Named 2025 Astronaut Scholars
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They are among 74 students selected from 51 universities nationwide to receive this prestigious honor.
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July 30, 2025
The United States Should Act Now to Mitigate Conflict Escalation on the Moon
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Georgia Tech experts explore the growing geopolitical risks of lunar activity and call for clearer international norms to prevent conflict on the moon.
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July 18, 2025
Georgia Tech Study Hopes to Prevent Cislunar Collisions as Moon Missions Increase
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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.
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July 15, 2025
LIGO Detects Most Massive Binary Black Hole to Date
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Before merging, both black holes were spinning exceptionally fast, and their masses fell into a range that should be very rare — or impossible.
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