The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) at the University of Arizona invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the field of solar system planetary science. The successful...

Thousands of asteroids have been named after people, but not just anyone can garner that honor.The International Astronomical Union (IAU) governs asteroid naming and sets the rules. The asteroid disco...

NASA selected three new scientific investigations and their payload suites to advance our knowledge of the Moon and help pave the way for building humanity’s

HENRY BREANArizona Daily Star Is it weird for a rock star to have his

Everything from sand to summer vacations is projected to change in the Grand Canyon as the river’s flows are reduced.

The Multiscale Physics of Clouds Across Planetary Atmospheres collaboration, funded by the Simons Foundation, is seeking 8 postdoctoral researchers to develop new approaches to understanding clouds ac...

Ewen Whitaker was one of the founding members of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, one of the world's first research institutions…

OCTOBER 1-3, 2026 | GREEN VALLEY, ARIZONAFREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!*Free tickets are required for Light Speed Lectures. Up Close with VERITAS tours at Whipple Observatory are paid ticket...

We detect a candidate fifth planet in the HR 8799 system, directly imaged with the JWST/NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometer (AMI). The detected source lies just above a $3σ$ contrast curve at a con...

Ring systems have been found around several small bodies in the outer Solar System through stellar occultations. While such observations provide constraints on ring geometry and dynamical interactions...

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