Oct. 7, 2026 Tenacity, triumph and discovery: Looking back at OSIRIS-REx at mission's end Sept. 30 marked the formal end of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. This was the United States' first ambitious attempt to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth, and it was led by the University of Arizona.
Oct. 6, 2026 Stories from star dust: U of A-led mission will study light from distant stars The mission, dubbed PUFFINS, will use an ultraviolet space telescope to seek answers about dust between stars.
Sept. 24, 2026 JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements Contrary to conventional wisdom holding that early galaxies were composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, new observations suggest that galaxies were seeding the cosmos with heavy elements just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
Aug. 26, 2026 U of A scientists play crucial roles in Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope science, eagerly await Sunday's launch 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.
Aug. 25, 2026 Pandora mission begins science operations 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.
Aug. 25, 2026 Planet formation is a 'race against time,' according to new U of A research "Stunning" JWST images of newborn-solar systems shed light on how and when they lose gas, suggesting that planet formation is "a race against time," according to new research led by U of A graduate student Naman Bajaj.
Aug. 19, 2026 U of A begins building moon-bound EMILIA-3D to study lunar terrain The U of A-led EMILIA-3D is one of three recent science investigation payloads selected through NASA's PRISM SALSA program to study the lunar surface.
Aug. 18, 2026 Arizona-Taiwan partnership advances semiconductor talent and innovation Leaders from the U of A, Taiwan's National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and regional partners advanced plans for a joint Talent and Innovation Hub, focused on semiconductor education, research and workforce development.
July 29, 2026 Three-lobed asteroid is a world unlike any other 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.
July 20, 2026 How stars die: Astronomers detect magnetic fingerprint of a cosmic explosion for the first time 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.
