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The search for Earth-like life on other worlds should focus on solar systems with Jupiter-like planets, a University of Arizona scientist reports today. Jupiter-like planets flinging Mars-sized objects toward their sun-like stars would deliver the water needed for carbon-based terrestrial life.
"Plastic" light-emitting diodes can be made to deliver more light and less heat, a UA physicist and colleagues in Utah and India report today in Nature.
First-ever complete views of Earth's plasmasphere reveal some surprises. The IMAGE spacecraft views include those by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager made by Bill Sandel and his team at the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab.
A University of Arizona astronomer is one big step closer to two asteroids that have recorded what the early solar system was like when the terrestrial planets formed.
Dozens of undergraduates working UA campus labs will display a variety of biological research this weekend.
Working in research labs in Europe is truly rewarding, says a UA undergraduate biology student in the university's BRAVO! program.
Since 1924, Steward Observatory has been hosting public evening astronomy lectures. 1920s audiences would be shocked by what the astronomers are saying now.
The University of Minnesota announced today that it has joined the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) project. Minnesota will receive viewing time on the LBT through an alliance with Research Corporation, a Tucson science advancement foundation that is a partner in the LBT.
A team at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) is gripped by the special frenzied excitement that comes with packing up a major space experiment scheduled to reach Mars next October.
A new greenhouse at the UA's Campus Agricultural Center features controlled environment agriculture, which emphasizes the design of cost-effective systems, processes and equipment that will generate high yields of quality produce in greenhouses.