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 6, 2024 A pebble scooped from an asteroid is now on display at UArizona museum The Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum is now one of only three places in the world where the public can see a piece of the asteroid Bennu, collected during NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission.
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.
Feb. 24, 2024 Steward Observatory balloon mission breaks NASA record 22 miles above Antarctica Seeking clues about the life cycle of stars, the GUSTO balloon mission, led by university astronomer Chris Walker, breaks the record as NASA's longest-flying heavy-lift balloon mission.
Feb. 21, 2024 The science of leap day – how it works and why we do it Ahead of Feb. 29, UArizona Regents Professor of planetary sciences Renu Malhotra explains why we need leap year, why we skip it once a century and why we sometimes need to add leap seconds.
Feb. 20, 2024 Giant Magellan Telescope brings new partner into the fold Taiwan's leading astronomy institute joins Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, South Korea and the United States in building one of the world's largest and most powerful telescopes.
