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The CHaSE program at the University of Arizona offers a offers a single-day spacesuit training program and is working to make space travel and spacesuits more accessible.

The CHaSE program reaches for the stars in new space exploration developments

Emma LaPointe
December 4, 2024
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launches aboard a ULA Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

UA-led mission accomplished: Asteroid sample returns to Earth

Danielle Hartshorn
September 22, 2023
The Steward Observatory has been serving the University of Arizona for over 100 years.

The UA Space Act Agreement opens up opportunities for researchers in human space flight

Samuel Ellis
August 27, 2023
The transmission electron microscope is one of many high-quality machines that researchers at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory use. The recent grant the LPL received from NASA will help to support the cost of machines like the TEM, which allows scientists to see individual atoms.

Planetary sciences: Upcoming plans for the UA’s OSIRIS-REx mission

Kanishka Chinnaraj
February 21, 2023
Digital illustration of graduates throwing their caps into the air.

University of Arizona seniors celebrate 158th commencement ceremony with remarks from OSIRIS-REx leader

Jeremiah Ludwig
May 18, 2022
Attendees of the 7th Interstellar Symposium gathered to pose for a group photo on Sept. 26 at the Tucson Marriott University Park. The event was hosted by the Interstellar Research Group which is dedicated to championing interstellar research and exploration. 

Interstellar research group holds their 7th annual symposium

Trinity Clark
October 2, 2021
Moe Momayez and Jekan Thangam, University of Arizona researchers who have received funding from NASA to research potential space mining methods using robots.

UA researches using swarms of robots to mine on moon’s surface

Sean Meixner
September 14, 2021
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

I need space: the history of the university’s involvement in NASA missions

Sydney Jones
May 12, 2021
This past year, the University of Arizona has made its mark on outer space with a number of different research accomplishments. "OSIRIS-REx Launch (NHQ201609080013)" by NASA HQ PHOTO is licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. 

Out of this world research from the UA

Jillian Bartsch
April 19, 2021
Researchers at the University of Arizona, Feige Wang and Jinyi Yang, have been working on this research for a few years. They explained that the surprising part was not the discovery of this quasar itself, but what they had found from their survey. Photo credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva

The UA discovers most recent quasar to date

Jillian Bartsch
January 24, 2021
The University of Arizona will lead NASA's Aspera Mission. Photo courtesy of Carlos Vargas, who is a postdoctoral researcher in the UA’s Steward Observatory. According to Vargas, the Aspera mission will produce the world’s first maps of the mysterious "warm-hot" phase of gas that surrounds galaxies.

The UA to lead NASA’s Aspera mission

Jillian Bartsch
January 17, 2021
Behind the Beaker: the DW science podcast highlights scientists and their work in the UA community. Weekly shows are available everywhwere you stream podcasts including Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Behind the Beaker: DW Science Podcast

Alexandra Pere, Jillian Bartsch, and Udbhav Venkataraman
December 14, 2020
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

History in the now: First asteroid sample through NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission

Jillian Bartsch
October 20, 2020
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

First-ever sampling of asteroid’s surface

Jillian Bartsch
October 18, 2020
A color composite image of Earth taken on Sept. 22 by the MapCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. This image was taken just hours after the spacecraft completed its Earth Gravity Assist at a range of approximately 106,000 miles.

Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu may have formed from direction collision in space, could be siblings

Alexandra Pere
June 17, 2020
Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Launched in 2018, Parker Solar Probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth. 

NASA’s hottest mission will discover more about sun’s surface

Sydney Jones
December 6, 2019
A view of the moon with the stars in the background. Ranger 9 provided exceptional data on the surface and mass of the Moon.

Local aerospace company wins NASA grant, relies on UA talent

Sydney Jones
November 26, 2019
The Art of Planetary Science will take place at the Kuiper Space Sciences building on the weekend of Nov. 15-17. Graduate students from the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory have been volunteering since 2013 to keep this event running.

‘Art of Planetary Science’ paints the universe

Isabella Barron
November 9, 2019
Digital rendering courtesy UA News

NASA chooses UA for MIRO program

Nicholas Trujillo
July 22, 2019
UA President Ann Eaver Hart addresses the class of 2017 during the 153rd Annual UA Commencement on Friday, May 12.

A look into the history of commencement speakers at UA

Randall Eck
May 5, 2019
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