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Historically, computer simulations modeling collisions between protoplanetary bodies have treated them largely as fluids. A new study suggests taking into account the material strength of solid bodies...

Few space missions are run from university campuses. NASA's Pandora space has embarked on its mission to stare at worlds outside of our solar system and their host stars, all under the watchful eyes o...

The launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope takes place live Sunday morning at 7:26 am EDT/4:26 am MST on NASA Live.

"Stunning" JWST images of newborn-solar systems shed light on how and when they lose gas, suggesting that planet formation is "a race against time," according to new research led by U of A graduate st...

NASA has declared “wrenches down” on the first completed payload designed for Artemis astronauts to deploy on the Moon's surface. Engineers working on NASA’s

The first of six new airborne campaigns will hit the skies this summer.

A planetary sciences graduate student developed the curriculum herself and chose to bring it to the detention center.

What is a potentially hazardous asteroid like? Up close and personal? Very few space missions have visited asteroids and fewer still have touched an asteroid and brought some of it back to Earth. Dean...

The TVAC’s inaugural test subject, SESAR-LITE, marks the university's entry into an exclusive testing arena, positioning the Space Institute alongside established government and commercial testing fac...

U of A researchers launched drones equipped with ground-penetrating radar over debris-covered glaciers in Alaska and Wyoming that resemble buried ice deposits found on Mars.

In one of the biggest surprises of the OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders.

Using computer simulations, researchers at the University of Arizona model the formation of giant impact basins, or craters, on 16 Psyche in preparation for the arrival of NASA's Psyche mission in 202...

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A University of Arizona-led research team has measured the dynamics and ever-changing "shell" of hot gas from where the solar wind originates.

After clearing its last hurdle on its way to space, the University of Arizona-led Pandora satellite mission launched into orbit, where it will study at least 20 exoplanets and their host stars over lo...

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.