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AbGradCon 2026 graduate committee

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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, a professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson

Dr. Geoffrey Gurtner elected to National Academy of Medicine

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.

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APEX and Apophis

Three years into its second mission, NASA's 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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