March 6, 2024 A pebble scooped from an asteroid is now on display at UArizona museum The Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum is now one of only three places in the world where the public can see a piece of the asteroid Bennu, collected during NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission.
March 5, 2024 James Webb Space Telescope captures the end of planet formation How much time do planets have to form from a swirling disk of gas and dust around a star? A new University of Arizona-led study gives scientists a better idea of how our own solar system came to be.
Feb. 20, 2024 'The future is fungal': Research finds fungi that live in healthy plants are sensitive to climate change The findings, more than a decade in the making, reveal a rich diversity of beneficial fungi living in boreal forest trees, with implications about the health of forests.
Jan. 29, 2024 Webb Telescope reveals stunning structures in nearby spiral galaxies New images taken with the James Webb Space Telescope reveal intricate, never-before-seen structures and features hidden in visible light. The insights will help astronomers better understand the history of the Milky Way.
Dec. 18, 2023 Asteroids, athletics and 'America the Beautiful': The top stories of 2023 From delivering a historic asteroid sample to setting a university record in Fulbright Scholars, the University of Arizona celebrated several newsmaking events in 2023.
Nov. 29, 2023 The case of the missing phosphorus: Astronomers find life ingredient at galaxy's edges The discovery of phosphorus in a molecular cloud at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy extends the presence of the element almost twice as far out as where it was known to exist.
Nov. 3, 2023 UArizona announces $118.65M in gifts toward $3B fundraising campaign The Fuel Wonder campaign, which began counting contributions on Jan. 1, 2017, and was officially launched on Friday, has so far raised more than $2 billion.
Oct. 23, 2023 Researchers probe how a piece of the moon became a near-Earth asteroid A University of Arizona team has found that an interesting pathway could have led the moon fragment to reach Earth's orbital space, suggesting there could be many more.
Oct. 31, 2023 OSIRIS-REx flies on as OSIRIS-APEX to explore a second asteroid NASA extended the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission, which has since been renamed OSIRIS-APEX. The spacecraft will study another potentially hazardous, near-Earth asteroid named Apophis.
Oct. 11, 2023 First look at Bennu sample reveals carbon, water The latest findings from NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission support scientists' theory that asteroids rich in carbon and water may have delivered the essential building blocks of life and made Earth habitable.