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Early-career graduate students host an exclusive, NASA-funded astrobiology conference

AbGradCon 2026, a student organized conference, brought an international group of graduate students studying astrobiology, planetary science and astronomy to the University of Arizona to present their research and engage in early-career discussions.

Dr. Geoffrey Gurtner elected to National Academy of Medicine

Monday

Dr. Geoffrey Gurtner has been awarded more than $50 million in federal research funding, holds more than 50 patents, has founded five venture capital-backed life science companies, has authored or co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and nearly 50 book chapters, and has served as president of several medical societies.

Three years into its second mission, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX sets its sights on 2029

Oct. 12, 2026

OSIRIS-APEX, the spacecraft that originally flew as OSIRIS-REx, is expected to reach the asteroid Apophis in late spring of 2029, but the team is already keeping the spacecraft busy.

Discovery marks the first detection of variable water clouds outside of our solar system

Oct. 8, 2026

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected.

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Early-career graduate students host an exclusive, NASA-funded astrobiology conference

Dr. Geoffrey Gurtner elected to National Academy of Medicine

Three years into its second mission, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX sets its sights on 2029

Discovery marks the first detection of variable water clouds outside of our solar system

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