LPL Spotlight Stories

"I hope there is a massive coronal mass ejection that happens during the mission," says Joe Giacalone (left), "…or maybe at the end of the mission." Kristopher Klein (right) is excited about the opportunity to go to a "fundamentally new" region of space – a star.
The Orion Nebula is a star-forming region in the Milky Way, and one of the most famous of the astronomical nebulas.
Project POEM participants test water quality in a shallow pool on Mount Lemmon.
Richard Kowalski of the UA-operated Catalina Sky Survey, talks about the discovery of 2018 LA, the small asteroid that exploded over southern Africa on June 2.
Optical Sciences Student Adriana Mitchell Off to Japan for Space Mission
Air Force Research Lab, Others Tap UA Space Expertise. Satellite flying through space over Earth with sun setting in the distance.
New Estimates of Mercury's Thin, Dense Crust. This image of Mercury was created using infrared, red and violet filters that capture wavelengths both visible and invisible to the human eye; the colors shown here are only slightly different from what the human eye would see. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University APL/Carnegie Institute of Washington)
LPL Astronomers Track Tesla Roadster in Space. The Tesla Roadster and its mannequin passenger, Starman. This image was captured by cameras onboard the vehicle. (Image: SpaceX)
UA Researchers on Winning Team in Lunar Exploration Competition. LUMIO mission profile showing launch, parking, transfer, operative and end-of-life phases.
The Science of Hunting Meteroites. A sample of the Michigan meteorite recovered by citizen scientists using maps produced by UA assistant professor Vishnu Reddy’s Doppler radar technique (Photo: Vishnu Reddy)