Your Guide to UCF Space Week 2026: Discovery, Connection and SpaceU Pride From industry summits and moon gazing to a spectacular drone show and the 10th annual Space Game, experience a week of events celebrating UCF鈥檚 space origin and the people and discoveries moving it forward.
Why Do We Celebrate UCF Space Week? Because Discovery Starts Here Space has always inspired what Knights do. The same unstoppable spirit that launched UCF still drives us 鈥� to challenge, lead and dare to explore the unknown.
First Look: UCF 2026 Space Game Uniforms Celebrating 10 years of the UCF Space Game, the 2026 uniforms pay tribute to NASA’s beginnings and UCF’s origin as America’s Space 海角直播.
UCF Researchers Study a Centaur Transforming Into a Comet Astronomers at UCF are using NASA鈥檚 James Webb Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory to study a distant icy object that may offer a rare look at how centaurs evolve into active comets.
UCF Class Spotlight: Space Policy and Management This graduate-level course offers a behind-the-scenes look at the policy, management and administrative mechanisms that help power the space exploration industry.
UCF Engineering Students’ Excellence Celebrated With 2026 Astronaut Scholarship The prestigious scholarship offers financial support up to $15,000 in addition to mentorship and extensive networking opportunities.
From Earth to Titan: UCF Researchers Model Landscapes Using River Geometry The research could help scientists better understand how rivers shape Earth 鈥� and how ancient landscapes formed on Mars and Saturn鈥檚 largest moon, Titan.
UCF Researchers Advance Tech That Could Help Scientists Detect Habitable Worlds Beyond Our Solar System Supporting NASA鈥檚 proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, UCF researchers aim to help overcome one of the greatest challenges in modern astronomy: directly imaging Earth-like planets orbiting stars.
New UCF Study Links Microgravity, Space Radiation to Accelerated Aging Findings from College of Medicine Professor Michal Masternak and his team suggest spaceflight stressors may accelerate aging in the liver. This discovery could inform future medical research to understand aging on Earth and protect space travelers.
Florida Space Research Consortium Names UCF’s Alain Berinstain as Director Alain Berinstain, who joined UCF in January as director of the Florida Space Institute, now leads the eight-university initiative that aims to accelerate space鈥憆elated research, innovation and workforce development.