Focus on Graduate Students

Zarah Brown, a doctoral student at the UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, led the installation of 11 plaques depicting various objects of the solar system across the UArizona campus.

Quakes could be the source of the mysteriously smooth terrain on the moons circling Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study led by PTYS Graduate Student Mackenzie Mills.

As a sizable asteroid makes a close pass by Earth, PTYS Graduate students David Cantillo and Adam Battle were ready to observe the action to practice and test procedures that could be useful in mitigating an impending asteroid impact in the future.

LPL Graduate Student Tyler Meng and his advisor Jack Holt developed a new method for analyzing rock glaciers, which could help scientists better understand these "hidden giants" on Earth and Mars.

Study led by PTYS graduate student Adam Battle identified a potential source of a special kind of meteorite. Its characteristics could explain certain discrepancies in how near-Earth asteroids are classified.

University of Arizona students have completed one of the first comprehensive peer-reviewed brightness studies to characterize mega-constellation satellites cluttering the skies.

Students from various academic backgrounds applied their classwork to take real action against climate change.

They identified and traced the path of China-launched rocket that impacted the surface.

A research team led by LPL graduate student Ben Sharkey thinks that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa might actually be a miniature moon.

A new model shows how brine on Jupiter’s moon Europa can migrate within the icy shell to form pockets of salty water that erupt to the surface when freezing. The findings are important for the upcoming Europa Clipper mission and may explain cryovolcanic eruptions across icy bodies in the solar system.