LPL Spotlight Stories

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
Apollo 17 astronaut Ron Evans had to embark on a spacewalk just to retrieve a cassette of film, which recorded data from the first radar mapping instrument mounted on a spacecraft. (Photo: NASA)
A University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory student holds a bright umbrella over the spot where she found geologic contact between two different lava flows during a trip to Amboy Crater in California's Mojave Desert. (Photo: Ali Bramson)
Launched on March 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. (Image: NASA)