News Elizabeth Turtle Named Alumna of the Year 2020-2021 Oct. 13, 2021 For her outstanding contributions to planetary science, the Arizona Alumni Association has named LPL alumna Dr. Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle the 2020-2021 Alumna of the Year for the College of Science. Read more Image Zibi Turtle: Titan of Exploration Oct. 1, 2021 She’ll lead the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. She’ll also lead the next generation of women in planetary science. Read more Image Johns Hopkins APL Jonathan Fortney Garners Simons Investigator in Astrophysics Award June 29, 2021 The $500,000 award from the Simons Foundation will support Fortney’s research on planetary atmospheres. Read more Image Still Taking Giant Leaps From Lunar Small Steps: Purdue Scientists Analyze Moon Dust Collected By Apollo 17 Astronauts June 28, 2021 Michelle Thompson is one of the new generation of scientists working on the Apollo moon missions. Read more Image Eve Berger Discusses NASA Asteroid Sample Return Mission June 23, 2021 Eve Berger, Senior Research Scientist at NASA Johnson Space Center, discusses her research and the importance of sample analysis as a panelist for “Ask an Astrobiologist: Everything You Wanted to Know about the OSIRIS-REx Mission to Bennu & Back.” Watch video Image The Vatican's Space Observatory Wants To See Stars And Faith Align June 6, 2021 At a time of growing diffidence toward some new scientific discoveries, the one and only Vatican institution that does scientific research, the Vatican Observatory, recently launched a campaign to promote dialogue between faith and science. LPL alumnus, Bro. Guy J. Consolmango, is the Director. Read more Image Ice Frozen Under Mars’ Surface Offers Major Resource to Aid Future Settlements March 1, 2021 Dr. Ali Bramson examines factors involving future habitats on Mars. Bramson is co-author on a Nature Astronomy (Feb. 2021) paper about subsurface ice on the red planet. Read more Image The Diaries of Space Explorers - Dr. Ali Bramson Feb. 15, 2021 Dr. Ali Bramson's research uses NASA spacecraft mission data to learn about the geology of other planets in our Solar System, and her work on Martian ice is helping to shape the future of human exploration of Mars. Read more Image The Diaries of Space Explorers - Dr. Cecilia Leung Feb. 15, 2021 LPL alumna Dr. Cecilia Leung is a planetary scientist specializing in the present-day water cycle on Mars. Her research combines the use of 3D numerical atmospheric models and spacecraft observations to study seasonal changes in the Martian weather and climate. Her work also supports the Entry-Descent-and-Landing (EDL) of recent Mars Missions such as the InSight Mars Lander and the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. Read more Image Researcher Spotlight: Devin Schrader Jan. 1, 2021 Dr. Devin Schrader studies primitive meteorites that have remained relatively unaltered since they formed in the early Solar System ~4.5 billion years ago. He also works on samples returned from asteroids, including those returned from asteroid Itokawa by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), and is a collaborator on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. Read more Image Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page … 1 2 3 4 5 … Next › Next page Last » Last page
Elizabeth Turtle Named Alumna of the Year 2020-2021 Oct. 13, 2021 For her outstanding contributions to planetary science, the Arizona Alumni Association has named LPL alumna Dr. Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle the 2020-2021 Alumna of the Year for the College of Science. Read more Image
Zibi Turtle: Titan of Exploration Oct. 1, 2021 She’ll lead the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. She’ll also lead the next generation of women in planetary science. Read more Image Johns Hopkins APL
Jonathan Fortney Garners Simons Investigator in Astrophysics Award June 29, 2021 The $500,000 award from the Simons Foundation will support Fortney’s research on planetary atmospheres. Read more Image
Still Taking Giant Leaps From Lunar Small Steps: Purdue Scientists Analyze Moon Dust Collected By Apollo 17 Astronauts June 28, 2021 Michelle Thompson is one of the new generation of scientists working on the Apollo moon missions. Read more Image
Eve Berger Discusses NASA Asteroid Sample Return Mission June 23, 2021 Eve Berger, Senior Research Scientist at NASA Johnson Space Center, discusses her research and the importance of sample analysis as a panelist for “Ask an Astrobiologist: Everything You Wanted to Know about the OSIRIS-REx Mission to Bennu & Back.” Watch video Image
The Vatican's Space Observatory Wants To See Stars And Faith Align June 6, 2021 At a time of growing diffidence toward some new scientific discoveries, the one and only Vatican institution that does scientific research, the Vatican Observatory, recently launched a campaign to promote dialogue between faith and science. LPL alumnus, Bro. Guy J. Consolmango, is the Director. Read more Image
Ice Frozen Under Mars’ Surface Offers Major Resource to Aid Future Settlements March 1, 2021 Dr. Ali Bramson examines factors involving future habitats on Mars. Bramson is co-author on a Nature Astronomy (Feb. 2021) paper about subsurface ice on the red planet. Read more Image
The Diaries of Space Explorers - Dr. Ali Bramson Feb. 15, 2021 Dr. Ali Bramson's research uses NASA spacecraft mission data to learn about the geology of other planets in our Solar System, and her work on Martian ice is helping to shape the future of human exploration of Mars. Read more Image
The Diaries of Space Explorers - Dr. Cecilia Leung Feb. 15, 2021 LPL alumna Dr. Cecilia Leung is a planetary scientist specializing in the present-day water cycle on Mars. Her research combines the use of 3D numerical atmospheric models and spacecraft observations to study seasonal changes in the Martian weather and climate. Her work also supports the Entry-Descent-and-Landing (EDL) of recent Mars Missions such as the InSight Mars Lander and the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. Read more Image
Researcher Spotlight: Devin Schrader Jan. 1, 2021 Dr. Devin Schrader studies primitive meteorites that have remained relatively unaltered since they formed in the early Solar System ~4.5 billion years ago. He also works on samples returned from asteroids, including those returned from asteroid Itokawa by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), and is a collaborator on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. Read more Image