LPL Spotlight Stories

Planet-Forming Disks May Resemble Solar System 5 Billion Years Ago

Planet-Forming Disks May Resemble Solar System 5 Billion Years Ago

By Emily Litvack, UA Research, Discovery and Innovation - June 14, 2018 To make a planet, you need stuff. Protoplanetary
UA Encourages Visually Impaired Teens in STEM

UA Encourages Visually Impaired Teens in STEM

By Alexis Blue, University Communications - June 13, 2018 Maggie Lindsay's long, white cane swishes back and forth through the
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.

What it Takes to Discover Small Rocks in Space

By Daniel Stolte, University Communications - June 6, 2018 Once every month, on average, somewhere on Earth a fireball appears
Optical Sciences Student Adriana Mitchell Off to Japan for Space Mission

Optical Sciences Student Off to Japan for Space Mission

By Amee Hennig, UA College of Optical Sciences - May 31, 2018 Adriana Mitchell, an undergraduate in the University of
Satellite flying through space over Earth with sun setting in the distance.

Air Force Research Lab, Others Tap UA Space Expertise

By Emily Litvack, UA Research, Discovery and Innovation - May 8, 2018 If we spent 60 years leaving every car
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)

New Estimates of Mercury's Thin, Dense Crust

By Emily Walla, UA/NASA Space Grant Intern, University Communications - April 24, 2018 Mercury is small, fast and close to
Reddy and Campbell examine their animation of a Chinese space station flyby. (Photo: Mari Cleven/Research, Discovery & Innovation)

UA Researchers Track Chinese Space Station as it Falls to Earth

By Emily Litvack - March 22, 2018 A defunct Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, is expected to fall to Earth any
The Tesla Roadster and its mannequin passenger, Starman. This image was captured by cameras onboard the vehicle. (Image: SpaceX)

LPL Astronomers Track Tesla Roadster in Space

By Emily Walla, UA/NASA Space Grant Communications Intern - February 20, 2018 Earlier this month, the Falcon Heavy rocket successfully
LUMIO mission profile showing launch, parking, transfer, operative and end-of-life phases.

UA Researchers on Winning Team in Lunar Exploration Competition

By Emily Dieckman, UA College of Engineering - February 9, 2018 Pink Floyd aside, there isn't actually a dark side
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)

Rapid Detection and Recovery: The Science of Hunting Meteorites

By Emily Walla, NASA Space Grant Intern, University Communications - February 6, 2018 At 8:10 p.m. on Jan. 16, hundreds