Exploration

Students in the Wildcat Formula Racing club design, fabricate and build a formula-style racecar every year. The students recently traveled to Michigan to compete in the 2025 Formula SAE competition, one of the premier collegiate engineering contests in the country.

A U of A-led study reveals a surprising way planetary cores formed. The findings could reshape how scientists understand the early evolution of rocky planets like Mars.

Astronomers have discovered an enormous cloud of gas and dust, containing the fundamental building block of stars and planets. Dubbed Eos, the molecular cloud is one of the largest single structures in the sky.

Using realistic computer simulations, students are able to better understand how consumers shop and experience products, while testing ideas in ways that would be impossible in a traditional classroom.

Analyzing radiocarbon in tree-ring samples, scientists have created the most detailed record yet of solar activity during the first millennium B.C.E.

Despite its rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon may be able to support only a minuscule amount of biomass, if life exists there.

U of A researchers are using a new technique that could boost eye-tracking accuracy in a variety of fields ranging from the entertainment industry to medical research.

NASA's newly launched SPHEREx mission will use software developed at the Arizona Cosmology Lab to analyze data and help astronomers understand what happened in the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

Neuroscientists have found that aging alters the gene expressions that control birds' songs. The finding could lead to better treatments for disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

U of A astronomers are learning more about a galaxy that existed when the universe was just 2% of its current age. One unexpected finding: significant amounts of oxygen.