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Artist's illustration of the TRAPPIST system shows the star as an orange glowing ball with four of its seven planets orbiting around it.

A new look at TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized, habitable-zone exoplanet

Recently reported methane signatures detected by the James Webb Space Telescope could be a hint to it potentially harboring life, but University of Arizona researcher Sukrit Ranjan urges caution.

Read more at University of Arizona News

Earth fills most of the image, a moody blue globe mostly covered with tiny blueish white clouds like carpet pile or sheep’s wool. In the foreground, the instrument panel is dark enough to be nearly in silhouette, like a city skyline. A tall thin rectangle juts up from the left side of the panel, like a tall building, which is part of the SamCam. In the center, a shorter, squatter polygon shape is the OLA instrument. A slightly lighter colored Y shape lays on its side in front of the OLA.

OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft takes selfie with Earth during flyby

The spacecraft of the U of A-led OSIRIS-APEX mission performed a "slingshot" maneuver around Earth as part of its journey to catch up with its mission target, asteroid Apophis.

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Research communications teams win PRSA awards

Three IMPACT Awards for general marketing communications were presented during a ceremony October 16.

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Harper lecture puts sixth extinction in historical context

The second Distinguished Research Lecture of the fall featured Kyle Harper on his interdisciplinary approach to understanding the biodiversity crisis.

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Research communications teams win PRSA awards

Thursday

Artist's illustration of the TRAPPIST system shows the star as an orange glowing ball with four of its seven planets orbiting around it.

A new look at TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized, habitable-zone exoplanet

Thursday

A man is talking intensely while a projection screen in the background

Harper lecture puts sixth extinction in historical context

Wednesday

A man in a dress shirt and jacket stands in a small room with cone-shaped acoustic tiles on all the walls.

Lecture by Nobel laureate Schmidt expands understanding of universe

Tuesday

Earth fills most of the image, a moody blue globe mostly covered with tiny blueish white clouds like carpet pile or sheep’s wool. In the foreground, the instrument panel is dark enough to be nearly in silhouette, like a city skyline. A tall thin rectangle juts up from the left side of the panel, like a tall building, which is part of the SamCam. In the center, a shorter, squatter polygon shape is the OLA instrument. A slightly lighter colored Y shape lays on its side in front of the OLA.

OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft takes selfie with Earth during flyby

Nov. 25

people sitting at a table during a press conference as one of them speaks

U of A and CNRS: Transcending borders to advance science that benefits the world

Nov. 25

A portrait of Chris Augustine and Joe Harting

U of A startup breaks decades-long vendor lock-in with new mobile credentialing platform

Nov. 25

A woman places her hand near a scar on her back shoulder

A type of immune cell could hold a key to preventing scar tissue buildup in wounds

Nov. 25

Boojum trees grow in a desert landscape, with the blue waters of the Gulf of California in the background.

Ecological winners: Why some species dominate the planet

Nov. 24

Tree rings shown in a tree cross section

Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes

Nov. 24

Several people gather at a reception in a courtyard outside the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine

U of A highlights student success, research innovation at 'Reporting on Our Promise' board update

Nov. 21

Comet 3I/ATLAS is visible as a smudgy, white speck with a diffuse halo around it against jet-black background of space.

U of A's Mars camera gets close look at comet from interstellar space

Nov. 19

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's president highlights U of A partnership as model for linking education, research and industry

Nov. 19

University of Arizona astronomer develops novel method to make AI more trustworthy

Nov. 18

Stephanie Russo Carroll

U of A expert leads process to codify the first global standard on Indigenous Peoples' data

Nov. 17

Four older people playing pickleball

Precision Aging Network data release opens new pathways for healthy aging research

Nov. 17

Mole with cirle around it and numbered 1 to 4

U of A researchers awarded federal grant to explore topical immunoprevention for skin cancer

Nov. 17

A person holds a small grey wearable device used for would healing

Revolutionizing wound care with AI

Nov. 14

A portrait of Derick Maggard, Araceli Hernández-Granados, Pierre Deymier, Lynn Frazier, Rakhi Gibbons and Doug Hockstad

Sounds like success: U of A NSF center wins Innovator of the Year Award

Nov. 13

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U of A scientists recognized with prestigious NIH 'New Innovator' awards

Nov. 12

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When cancer treatment stops, but the healing stalls

Nov. 10

A dancer stands in silhouette in front of an image of space

EarthScape: Where artistic and scientific worlds collide

Nov. 10

A pregnant woman stands with one plate of salad and another with a donut

NIH grant will help probe ‘nutritional memory’ to increase understanding of food choices

Nov. 10

archaeologists crouching in a hole in the ground and digging around artifacts buried in the ground

U of A-led team discovers large ritual constructions by early Mesoamericans

Nov. 5