Science & Technology

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected.

The mission, dubbed PUFFINS, will use an ultraviolet space telescope to seek answers about dust between stars.

Scientists were stunned when they discovered a fossilized tooth from a capybara that lived in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile almost 9 million years ago.

Historically, computer simulations modeling collisions between protoplanetary bodies have treated them largely as fluids. A new study suggests taking into account the material strength of solid bodies drastically changes outcomes.

U of A research assessed seven different generative AI language learning models. Their work reveals intrinsic limitations that might go undetected during one-off interactions.

Researchers found that El Niño's warming in the Pacific has become much stronger in the past four decades, with implications for extreme weather events across the globe.

The launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope takes place live Sunday morning at 7:26 am EDT/4:26 am MST on NASA Live.

Few space missions are run from university campuses. NASA's Pandora space has embarked on its mission to stare at worlds outside of our solar system and their host stars, all under the watchful eyes of a dedicated team at the U of A's own mission control center.

New observations of unprecedented detail reveal that one of the most enigmatic asteroids in the solar system has a one-of-a-kind shape and is orbited by a previously unknown moon.

U of A researchers revealed polarized light and a powerful magnetic environment in a gamma-ray burst afterglow, offering new clues about how the universe's most massive stars end their lives.