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Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

Wearing white gloves, NASA scientist Scott Eckley positions a sample container in front of an X-ray machine, a round metal tube.

Asteroid Bennu's rugged surface baffled NASA. We finally know why

Artist's illustration showing the glowing ball that is the sun in the center, surrounded by a spiky shell of fuzzy, gray lines.

Kissing the sun: U of A researchers unravel mysteries of the solar wind

Artist's illustration of the Pandora spacecraft, consisting of a telescope lens and three solar panels extended. The sun and Jupiter are in the background.

Pandora, a keen-eyed satellite built to study exoplanets, takes flight

Artist's illustration of the TRAPPIST system shows the star as an orange glowing ball with four of its seven planets orbiting around it.

A new look at TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized, habitable-zone exoplanet

Earth fills most of the image, a moody blue globe mostly covered with tiny blueish white clouds like carpet pile or sheep’s wool. In the foreground, the instrument panel is dark enough to be nearly in silhouette, like a city skyline. A tall thin rectangle juts up from the left side of the panel, like a tall building, which is part of the SamCam. In the center, a shorter, squatter polygon shape is the OLA instrument. A slightly lighter colored Y shape lays on its side in front of the OLA.

OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft takes selfie with Earth during flyby

In this rendering, the lunar surface is represented by false colors. A blue circle indicates the low-lying South Pole-Aitken impact basin, surrounded by red and orange ejecta blankets to the south.

The moon's biggest impact crater made a radioactive splash

Jessica Barnes sitting in a chair in her lab, loading a sample into an analyzer instrument

Asteroid Bennu is a time capsule of materials bearing witness to its origin and transformation over billions of years

An arrow points to a dot of light among a field of background stars

An emissary from interstellar space

Resembling a raw gold vein, a molten sulfide network is revealed percolating between grey rock in this microscopic image

Percolating clues: A new way to build planetary cores

Snow4Flow

From glacial preservation to local conservation: U of A experts discuss research ahead of World Water Day

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