LPL Spotlight Stories

Psyche: Unexpected Discoveries on a Metal World

By Daniel Stolte, University Communications - October 21, 2016 Astronomers have discovered possible evidence for water on the surface of

More Evidence for 9th Planet on Solar System's Fringes

By Daniel Stolte - University Communications, October 21, 2016 As the search for a hypothetical, unseen planet far beyond Neptune's

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

Malhotra Named Regents' Professor

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

Pluto Follows its Cold, Cold Heart

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

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

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

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

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

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