Oct. 25, 2023 Digital terrain models zero in on Martian surface A team of scientists at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory brings alien landscapes to life by creating realistic, to-scale digital terrain models from scientific data.
Oct. 25, 2023 Tracking the Bennu sample capsule's separation from OSIRIS-REx Data collected ahead of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule's plunge into Earth's atmosphere will help test algorithms used to pinpoint asteroids that could impact Earth.
Oct. 23, 2023 Researchers probe how a piece of the moon became a near-Earth asteroid A University of Arizona team has found that an interesting pathway could have led the moon fragment to reach Earth's orbital space, suggesting there could be many more.
Oct. 31, 2023 OSIRIS-REx flies on as OSIRIS-APEX to explore a second asteroid NASA extended the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission, which has since been renamed OSIRIS-APEX. The spacecraft will study another potentially hazardous, near-Earth asteroid named Apophis.
Nov. 3, 2023 Indigenous Resilience Center receives $2 million grant from Waverley Street Foundation The funding will expand existing programs and support Indigenous experts, scholars and outreach specialists in developing local solutions to climate issues tribal communities are facing.
Oct. 17, 2023 UArizona launches Arizona Astrobiology Center to unlock the mysteries of life in the universe The center will bring together students and faculty from across campus to unravel the enigma of life's beginnings and our place in the cosmos.
Oct. 17, 2023 From the skies to your roof, what does a raindrop pick up along the way? The university's Project Harvest trained community members to collect rainwater to be tested for contaminants. The findings were published in bilingual interactive visualizations.
Oct. 11, 2023 First look at Bennu sample reveals carbon, water The latest findings from NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission support scientists' theory that asteroids rich in carbon and water may have delivered the essential building blocks of life and made Earth habitable.
Oct. 10, 2023 Mining Arizona's hidden treasure University researchers partner with mining community to explore ways to repurpose copper mining waste rock as part of a Regents' Research Grant from the Arizona Board of Regents.
Oct. 10, 2023 UArizona researchers are part of NASA's next astrophysics mission A research group at the Arizona Cosmology Lab is developing a method to study dark energy for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, which is scheduled to launch by 2027.