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Old Main building on the UArizona campus

Feb. 14, 2025

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman inspires U of A students to help shape the golden age of space exploration

During the NASA Inspiration Tour at the U of A, students shared the space missions and technologies they're building and engaged directly with NASA leaders about the opportunities ahead.

Two celestial bodies, riddled with craters, are depicted crashing into each other. The impact throws up a ring of fiery, molten rock and sprays debris far out into the surrounding space.

Sept. 8, 2026

Soft and stretchy or rock solid? New modeling study sheds light on how the Earth got its moon

A cylindrical space telescope against purplish filaments overlaid with a sprinkling of swirling galaxies in the background.

Aug. 26, 2026

U of A scientists play crucial roles in Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope science, eagerly await Sunday's launch

A metallic spacecraft takes up most of this image. Its body is made of a cylindrical telescope attached to a square base. Inside the telescope is the reflection of an orange star. A line of three solar panels extends from the right side of the spacecraft at a 45-degree angle. On the right side of the background is a large planet streaked with purple, pink, and white. To the left of the planet are two stars.

Aug. 25, 2026

Pandora mission begins science operations

a gray, cloudy disk seen from the side. From the center, winds of blue-white emerge. Behind is a starry background.

Aug. 25, 2026

Planet formation is a 'race against time,' according to new U of A research

A cube-like spacecraft sits on the moon's gray, rocky surface. A slice of the ground is falsely colored in blues and oranges.

Aug. 19, 2026

U of A begins building moon-bound EMILIA-3D to study lunar terrain

This telescope image shows asteroid Nysa as three-dimensional, bright body, with an arrow pointing at another object, Nysa's tiny moon, located a small distance away.

July 29, 2026

Three-lobed asteroid is a world unlike any other

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U of A astronomer Erika Hamden named to Arizona Space Commission

New 'spectral fingerprint' atlas of satellites aims to improve space security

JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman inspires U of A students to help shape the golden age of space exploration

Soft and stretchy or rock solid? New modeling study sheds light on how the Earth got its moon

U of A scientists play crucial roles in Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope science, eagerly await Sunday's launch

Pandora mission begins science operations

Planet formation is a 'race against time,' according to new U of A research

U of A begins building moon-bound EMILIA-3D to study lunar terrain

Three-lobed asteroid is a world unlike any other