Paul Hayne
Associate Professor || Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences Department
|| Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics
|| University of Colorado Boulder
Duane Physics Building, Room D321
391 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
(303) 735-6399
Welcome!
I am an associate professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. My research focuses on the thermal behavior of terrestrial planets and moons, especially icy worlds. Data from spacecraft and Earth-based observatories enable my group to investigate planetary atmospheres and surfaces. We develop physics-based models and perform quantitative analysis to interpret remote sensing data.
Here, you will find brief summaries of some of my group’s ongoing research, along with tools used to perform our work.
news
| Apr 10, 2026 |
New publication in Nature Astronomy on the history of ice accumulation at the lunar poles! 
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| Mar 27, 2026 |
Paul Hayne selected to join the Artemis science team for the lunar south polar mission! 
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| Nov 15, 2022 |
EPIC graduate student Noora Alsaeed publishes a study on water transport into the polar regions of Mars through scavenging by CO2 snowfall!
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| Jun 2, 2022 |
Lunar-VISE selected by NASA for a payload to the Moon! 
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| Oct 26, 2020 |
Our new paper
on the discovery of billions of tiny potential ice reservoirs on the Moon is out in Nature Astronomy!
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| Jul 9, 2019 |
NASA selects our infrared camera for flight to the Moon! The Lunar Compact Infrared Imaging System (L-CIRiS) is a collaboration between LASP and Ball Aerospace.  
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