April 12, 2024 Humans will again set foot on the moon; this time, they'll have UArizona science in tow UArizona scientists mapped the moon for the Apollo missions. Now, as NASA astronauts prepare to return to the moon, two of the three instruments they'll bring have UArizona ties. The instruments will allow them to map moonquakes and the moon's subsurface.
April 9, 2024 UArizona earns top marks in MIS, legal writing, nursing in latest US News ranking The Eller College of Management's program in management information systems is ranked No. 1 among public universities and No. 3 overall in U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools rankings.
April 8, 2024 How the moon turned itself inside out New findings by UArizona researchers offer important insights into the evolution of the lunar interior, and potentially for planets such as Earth and Mars.
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 27, 2024 Astronomers capture magnetic fields twirling around black hole A new view of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way obtained by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration revealing its magnetic field structure suggests that the processes by which black holes feed and eject jets into their surroundings may be universal among black holes despite vast differences in size and mass.
March 27, 2024 UArizona crew of professional artists completes simulated moon mission The goal of the six-day simulation, called Imagination 1, was to explore the value of art in space exploration and produce creative works inspired by the limitations and possibilities of life and culture beyond Earth.
March 26, 2024 Teams behind OSIRIS-REx win prestigious aviation award The team behind the University of Arizona-led NASA mission to sample the asteroid Bennu joins the ranks of the Apollo 11 crew and Orville Wright to earn the Robert J. Collier Trophy.
March 21, 2024 UArizona scientists pinpoint anorexia's neurologic origins The discovery, led by Haijiang Cai, an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience, was observed in mice, but the findings could lead to human drug treatments.
March 15, 2024 Innovative chemical strategy targets mosquito larvae gut to combat spread of deadly diseases University of Arizona researchers have modified the gut proteins of mosquito larvae, marking a significant advance in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases.