New research examines impact of Disney's 'The Living Desert'

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The 1953 film, shot in Tucson and styled as a wildlife documentary about the desert, won an Oscar and briefly put Tucson on the map. But new research by U of A associate professor Susan Swanberg explains how the film failed to live up to its "true-life" claims.

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U of A astronomers capture unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action

U of A astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black hole in the infrared, using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

Large and small galaxies may grow in ways more similar than expected

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way. New observations challenge this view, suggesting that even dwarf galaxies can accrete mass from other small galaxies.

NASA's Pandora mission one step closer to probing alien atmospheres, with mission operations based at U of A

The exoplanet mission, which will study of at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars, has cleared an important milestone with the completion of its spacecraft bus.