Focus on Graduate Students

Students from various academic backgrounds applied their classwork to take real action against climate change.

They identified and traced the path of China-launched rocket that impacted the surface.

A research team led by LPL graduate student Ben Sharkey thinks that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa might actually be a miniature moon.

A new model shows how brine on Jupiter’s moon Europa can migrate within the icy shell to form pockets of salty water that erupt to the surface when freezing. The findings are important for the upcoming Europa Clipper mission and may explain cryovolcanic eruptions across icy bodies in the solar system.

New LPL-led research updates our understanding of how water escaped Mars – not like a leaky faucet but with a sudden splash.

New mapping of the giant planet's upper atmosphere reveals a likely reason why it's so hot.

The merge between astronomy and geology, necessary to get humans to the moon, led to the birth of modern-day planetary science and a long history of field trips that continue to this day, enabling fledgling scientists to interpret data from far-off worlds without leaving Earth.

Two new studies by UA space scientists may bring into question the habitability of TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets, three of which are in the habitable zone of space.

The first unbiased survey of protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars in the Taurus star-forming region turned up a higher-than-expected number of disks with features suggesting nascent planets.

A team led by UA doctoral student Teddy Kareta obtained a rare glimpse of the bizarre, blue asteroid that is responsible for Geminid Meteor Shower.