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Oct. 8, 2026

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.

Glowing in soft pink, an iridescent dust cloud, lined by a faint blue line around it, is seen against a backdrop of stars.

Stories from star dust: U of A-led mission will study light from distant stars

The mission, dubbed PUFFINS, will use an ultraviolet space telescope to seek answers about dust between stars.

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Study Finds Molecular Explanation for Poor Symptom Control among Obese Asthmatics

July 13, 2017

What's an asteroid? an image of the earth bigger than an asteroid in the asteroid belt. The selected asteroid has the 3 main elements that make up an asteroid from the periodic table overlaid.

What Is An Asteroid?

June 28, 2017

telescope built by University of Arizona students sees first light

First New Telescope in 20 Years Opens on UA Campus

June 27, 2017

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How a UA Lab Jumpstarted a National Phenomenon in Home DNA Ancestry Testing

June 18, 2017

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So You Want to Analyze Asteroid Dirt

May 18, 2017

Dr. Vishnu Reddy's Design Day team poses with one of two telescopes they designed and built. This one will be installed in the Kuiper Building on University of Arizona campus and will be used to monitor the movement of satellites.

Undergraduate Students Build Telescopes to Track Space Junk

May 16, 2017

Baskets of peppers, chilis and cactus

Slack Chat: What's Desert Living Got to Do With Good Eating?

April 21, 2017

Video: Turning Algae Into Jet Fuel

April 4, 2017

Researcher at the university of Arizona examining a wood block sample from the Tree Ring lab

Radiocarbon Dating Gets a Postmodern Makeover

March 30, 2017

George Ruyle standing in the sun in front of a herd of cattle with his white cowboy hat on

Out Here, Stewardship of Public Lands is Cultural

March 21, 2017

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For Threatened Coffee Crops, Tree Rings May Offer Answers

Feb. 27, 2017

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Rogue One: A Case Study in Cybersecurity

Dec. 15, 2016

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Arizona’s Public Universities Team Up to Improve the State’s Stretch of I-10

Dec. 5, 2016

University of Arizona Mars Odyssey

One Man’s Mission to Mars, 30 Years in the Making

Oct. 17, 2016

6 easy ways to avoid theft online

Oct. 4, 2016

“For the nation's inmates to suddenly change an economic practice stretching back hundreds of years so that they might better feed themselves suggests a serious change in the quality of care,” the UA's Michael Gibson-Light says.

Noodles Supplant Cigarettes as Prison Currency of Choice

Aug. 24, 2016

University of Arizona athlete demonstrates the physics of the hammer for the olympics

How to get the gold in hammer throw: it’s physics.

Aug. 10, 2016

Zeus Bronze statue, olympics dedicated to Zeus while done naked

8 things the Ancient Greeks would find weird about today's Olympics

Aug. 3, 2016

An illustration of the Death Star laid over a white tracing of architectural details on the surface of the Death Star, and a cloudy pink and purple galaxy

Risk Analysis of the Death Star Thermal Exhaust Port Design

July 21, 2016

Bennu: How a Little Asteroid Became a Rock Star

June 29, 2016

Mosquito on someone's skin - Univeristy of Arizona Zika virus research

UA Zika Virus Research Aims to Predict Outbreaks

May 19, 2016

James Webb Space Telescope Sunsheild membrane testing

James Webb Space Telescope Facts

May 11, 2016

Hubble Space Telescope with earth in background

Hubble Space Telescope Facts

May 11, 2016

Two UA Researchers Named Sloan Research Fellows

March 7, 2016