June 6, 2024 Webb Telescope finds plethora of carbon molecules around young star A team of astronomers, including UArizona scientists, used the telescope to study the disk of gas and dust around a young, low-mass star.
May 30, 2024 Glimpses of a volcanic world: New telescope images of Jupiter's moon Io rival those from spacecraft Astronomers have captured a volcanic event on Jupiter's moon Io at a resolution never before achieved with Earth-based observations.
May 30, 2024 Webb Telescope spots the two most distant galaxies ever seen at cosmic dawn Researchers have discovered the most distant galaxy ever detected. The secrets it contains challenge previous assumptions about galactic evolution.
May 29, 2024 'Mind-boggling' quasars and atmospheres of vaporized rock: UArizona astronomers explore cosmos with Webb Telescope UArizona astronomers have scored some of the largest chunks of observing time with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
May 9, 2024 Steward Observatory alumna Jane Rigby receives Presidential Medal of Freedom Jane Rigby, who received her doctoral degree from the UArizona Department of Astronomy in 2006, was recognized for her role in the success of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission and her longtime support of diversity and inclusion in science.
May 9, 2024 UArizona's Marcia Rieke wins $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize The award recognizes Regents Professor Rieke's work in infrared astronomy. Rieke led the development of the James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera.
April 18, 2024 Two UArizona astronomy researchers named AAAS Fellows For their contributions to the field of astrobiology, Dante Lauretta and Daniel Apai have been elected 2023 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
April 5, 2024 Solar eclipses have been a source of fascination forever There were times when eclipses ended battles or cost astronomers their heads. Longtime UA astronomer Don McCarthy sheds some light on the celestial spectacle through history.
March 27, 2024 Webb telescope takes its first images of forming planetary systems The observations will help astronomers refine their theories about the processes involved in planet formation and shed light on what our sun did when it was very young.
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.
