A decade ago this week, NASA’s New Horizons mission snapped the first-ever close-up image of Pluto. The awe-inspiring portrait of the dwarf planet featured a heart-shaped plane of frozen nitrogen and ...

July 15, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – Orbiting in the outskirts of the Solar System is a mysterious object moving in rhythm with Neptune, according to a new paper published in the Planetary Science Journal.

July 15, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – The United Nations General Assembly agreed in 2021 to create International Moon Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the first landing by humans on the Moon on 20 ...

Field Guide to the Santa Fe impact structure (from 2017 Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Santa Fe, NM) Depositional contacts of loess and basalt as an analog for dust on Mars… ...

The march of the planets around the Sun may seem interminable, but new research suggests that the likelihood of another star in our galaxy passing by and disrupting our Solar System is slightly higher ...

June 26, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – June 30 is Asteroid Day, the United Nations sanctioned day of public awareness of the importance of asteroids. Asteroid Day is observed on the anniversary of the Siberia ...

June 26, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO for short, is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to squeeze even more science out of ...

Now, $18.8 billion may sound like a lot of money. But NASA represents less than half of one percent of government spending. Thus, cutting NASA by this much will not significantly change the national ...

Deployment and installation of spectroscopy equipment, advising in technical purchases for the lab, and assisting with spectroscopy projects as needed by Prof. Reddy.