LPL Spotlight Stories

Boynton's Mission to Mars, 30 Years in the Making
By Emily Litvack, October 17, 2016 Before his life's work got to Mars, Bill Boynton toiled, witnessed an explosion, and...

Microscopic Findings, Astronomic Implications
By Rebecca Peiffer, NASA Space Grant Intern, University Relations - Communications, October 16, 2015 Imagine that you could travel back...

The Life of the 'Moon Tree' on Campus
By Emily Litvack, University Relations - Communications, October 28, 2015 The year was 1971. Led Zeppelin was on a whirlwind,...

In a Hubble First, UA Astronomers Take Images of an Exoplanet Changing Over Time
By Emily Litvack - February 18, 2016 Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at the University of Arizona have taken...

Catalina Sky Survey Helps Explain Puzzling Observations
By University Relations - Communications, February 19, 2016 The ultimate fate of most near-Earth objects, or NEOs - asteroids and...

The Reason for Mars' Tumultuous Past
By Daniel Stolte, University Relations - Communications, March 4, 2016 Deep below the surface of the withered, dead and barren...

HiRISE: 45,000 Mars Orbits and Counting
By University Relations - Communications, March 23, 2016 True to its purpose, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, the spacecraft...

Tales of a Tilting Moon Hidden in Its Polar Ice
By Daniel Stolte, University Relations - Communications, March 22, 2016 A new study published Wednesday in Nature reports that the...

Pluto Follows its Cold, Cold Heart
By Daniel Stolte, University Relations - Communications, March 28, 2016 Pluto is a weird environment, according to James Keane ,...

Malhotra Named Regents' Professor
April 12, 2016 LPL Professor Renu Malhotra is one of three University of Arizona faculty members named as Regents' Professors...