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APEX and Apophis

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

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.

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A planet with a striped pattern consisting of purple and tan bands, set against a backdrop of stars in the distant universe

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

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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Tenacity, triumph and discovery: Looking back at OSIRIS-REx at mission's end

Sept. 30 marked the formal end of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. This was the United States' first ambitious attempt to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth, and it was led by the University of Arizona.

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U of A researchers, startup recognized at 2026 AZBio Awards

The University of Arizona will be well represented at this year’s AZBio awards, with BIO5 Interim Director Vignesh Subbian taking home the Michael A. Cusanovich Bioscience Educator of the Year award and startup Precision Epigenomics winning a Fast Lane recognition.

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American Society of Landscape Architects Recognizes U of A Students’ Smart Watering Project

Sept. 30, 2024

Old Main building on the UArizona campus

Jennifer McIntosh named inaugural Dr. Thomas Meixner Endowed Professor

Sept. 27, 2024

Waves

Ice age clues point to more extreme weather patterns in our future

Sept. 26, 2024

A Bosnian pine overlooking the hills of Pollino National Park in Italy.

Harvests, wildfires, epidemics: How the jet stream has shaped extreme weather in Europe for centuries

Sept. 25, 2024

Dante Lauretta gives a presentation in front of a space backdrop

$1M gift will advance consciousness research at U of A Astrobiology Center

Sept. 24, 2024

a photograph of a person with a label that says "arizona queer archives: building our histories together" on it sitting on top of an archive of items

$1M grant will support paid internships in community archives

Sept. 24, 2024

Sample return

OSIRIS-REx, 1 year later: Asteroid sample continues to provide clues about early solar system and origins of life on Earth

Sept. 24, 2024

Exoplanet illustrative image

Astronomers catch a glimpse of a uniquely inflated and asymmetric exoplanet

Sept. 24, 2024

Sunset over a landscape dominated by glaciers, small ice bergs and mountains

Study: Over nearly half a billion years, Earth's temperature has changed drastically, driven by carbon dioxide

Sept. 19, 2024

semi trucks and people wearing hazmat suits can be seen outside the main entrance to the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China

Samples from Huanan Seafood Market provide further evidence of COVID-19 animal origins

Sept. 19, 2024

four people gathered on two sides of a table covered in slips of paper

U of A project addresses loneliness in older adults living in border and rural communities

Sept. 18, 2024

aerial view of Tucson

U of A center awarded $7.4M for its work on climate adaptation solutions

Sept. 18, 2024

Fall season

Equinoxes explained: Everything you need to know about the upcoming fall equinox

Sept. 17, 2024

A woman wearing a white lab coat with long, dark hair smiles while posing for a photo inside of a research laboratory. Behind her is a counter with various computers and lab equipment.

Researchers take power and efficiency of biological sensing to record level

Sept. 16, 2024

Plants rendered in a virtual reality environment with two white joysticks representing hands floating above the plants.

U of A partners on project combining AI, virtual reality and agriculture

Sept. 13, 2024

Graphic, provided by the Earth Commission, showing the transition towards a safe and just space

New research reveals prosperity for planet, people if Earth’s critical resources are better shared

Sept. 11, 2024

Yuliia Vyskrebenets

First-year student from Ukraine hopes to find purpose helping others

Sept. 11, 2024

A researcher wearing a white lab coat works at a lab bench, examining a sample near a microscope. Behind him is a sign that reads "Welcome to the Matzkin Lab." Various lab equipment, including a microscope and coiled tubing, are visible on the bench.

The molecular magic of mating

Sept. 11, 2024

Image of a mother holding a child in a baby carrier

A mother’s touch: can close physical contact with newborns reduce mother and baby’s dependence on drug treatment?

Sept. 6, 2024

An open space with art on white and red walls and lounge seating sits behind a wall of glass doors set into a white wall. Above the doors reads "Alice Chainten Bker Interdisciplinary Gallery"

Center for Creative Photography receives $1M gift commitment to establish endowment for interdisciplinary education

Sept. 5, 2024

Angela Acuna, Sharon Hom and Timian Godfrey smiling and posing for a photo in caps and gowns

College of Nursing receives $1.6M to support Indigenous students

Sept. 3, 2024

lithium-ion battery

Preventing car battery fires with help from machine learning

Aug. 29, 2024

Graduate students, part of the Grad CAFE program, pose for a photo together

U of A’s Grad CAFE helps underrepresented STEM students succeed socially, academically

Aug. 29, 2024

Students celebrate at Bash at the Rec

U of A named a 'Best College' by The Princeton Review

Aug. 28, 2024