April 29, 2019 Ashes of a Dying Star Hold Clues about Solar System's Birth A dust grain forged in a stellar explosion predating our solar system reveals new insights about how stars end their lives and provide the building blocks of new stars and planets.
April 29, 2019 Researchers Find Ice Feature on Saturn’s Giant Moon While searching for the origins of Titan’s methane and the organics that coat its surface, UA researchers made the unexpected discovery of a large ice feature on Saturn's largest moon.
April 17, 2019 Four Questions: Here There Be Monsters Astrophotographer Adam Block talks about the galaxy known as Messier 87, home of the supermassive black hole photographed by the Event Horizon Telescope.
April 16, 2019 Powerful Particles and Tugging Tides May Affect Extraterrestrial Life Two new studies by UA space scientists may bring into question the habitability of TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets, three of which are in the habitable zone of space.
April 10, 2019 Chasing Einstein's Shadow: UA Helps Capture First Image of a Black Hole With the help of two radio telescopes coordinated by the UA, astronomers in the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration have taken the first direct image of a black hole, a prediction of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
March 19, 2019 An Odd Ball in Space: OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Studies Asteroid Bennu Up Close The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's first close-up observations of asteroid Bennu reveal new details that pose a challenge to the mission's objective of returning a sample to Earth.
March 18, 2019 UA Student-led CatSat Mission Selected by NASA UA students will get hands-on spacecraft hardware development experience thanks to NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, which recently selected CatSat to fly as auxiliary payload aboard future space missions.
March 11, 2019 UA Planetary Scientist Wins Bid to Study Moon Samples Incoming assistant professor Jessica Barnes will have the opportunity to study a previously unopened sample of a moon rock that was collected in the early 1970s during NASA's Apollo 17 mission.
Feb. 27, 2019 Two Young UA Astronomers Join $242M NASA Mission The SPHEREx mission will help astronomers, including the UA’s Elisabeth Krause and Tim Eifler, understand how the universe evolved and probe our galaxy for the ingredients of life.
Feb. 14, 2019 UA Study Suggests Possibility of Recent Underground Volcanism on Mars A new study conducted by UA planetary scientists suggests volcanoes may have been recently boiling deep below the surface of the Red Planet.