LPL Spotlight Stories

A comet worthy of worship: An artist illustration of what centaur SW1 would look like if it became an inner solar system Jupiter-Family comet at a distance of 0.2 AU (19 million miles) from Earth. The moon is in the upper right part of the frame for scale. (Image: Heather Roper)
An artist’s rendering of the asteroid Psyche. (Image: ASU/Peter Rubin/CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Students from Kyoto University in Japan and across Arizona participated in hands-on research in Biosphere 2's ocean biome. (Photo: Martin Pepper)
An artist's conception of two merging neutron stars creating ripples in space time known as gravitational waves. (Image: NASA)
Future space tourists take in the view during a "Saturnset tour" on one of Titan's lakes of liquid methane (Image: NASA/JPL)
$3M in NASA Funding to Help Students Build CubeSats