Space Drafts Talks by LPL Students and Staff
May 20, 2026
- Zarah Brown - Saturn's Rings: Ancient Icon or Cosmic Nepo Baby?
- Jeniveve Pearson - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Poof: The Fairy Hunt for Infant Black Holes
April 15, 2026
- Cole Meyer - The Universe's Barcode: What Colors in Space Tell Us
- Ruby Fulford - Martian Mystery and Mayhem: Exploring the Red Planet's Enigmatic Early Evolution
March 18, 2026
- Searra Foote - Humanity's Longest Expedition: Are We Alone?
- Peter Stephenson - An Auroral Safari Across the Solar System
January 21, 2026
- Devin Hoover - Titan: What We Know (and What We Don't)
- Brock Parker - From Photons to Photos: A Brief History of Detecting Light
November 19, 2025
- Anna Taylor - The Great Escape! How Exoplanets Lose Their Atmospheres and with It Their Potential for Life
- Maria Mutz - What's So Great About Neutron Stars? (and Why Don't They Feature in More Movies?)
November 19, 2024
- Carson Fuls - DO Look Up! Planetary Defense with the Catalina Sky Survey
- Soley Hyman - Making Sense of Chaos: From Earth to Space
October 15, 2024
- Wesley Tucker - Volcanoes, Coronae, and the Dynamic Surface of Venus
- Michael Jones - Finding the Lowest Mass Galaxies in Isolation
May 21, 2024
- Arin Avsar - When Worlds Collide
- Yuanyuan Zhang - The Expanding Universe and the Mystery of Dark Energy
January 16, 2024
- Fuda Nguyen - Space Travel by Words: Poetry About Up There, Down Here, and In Between
- Maria Mutz - The Discovery of Pulsars: A Guide to Unidentified Blinking Objects
October 17, 2023
- Adeene Denton - The Search for Stealth Ocean Worlds
- Carlos Vargas - Unveiling the Missing Universe with Arizona's Own Space Telescope
June 20, 2023
- Sarah Moran - Strange New Worlds Through the Eyes of JWST
- Haowen Zhang - Giant Black Holes and How We Study Them
October 18, 2022
- Veronica Bray - Killing Dinosaurs: The Effects of the Nadir and Chicxulub Impacts
- Soley Hyman - Ears to the Skies! The Past, Present, and Future of Sound in Astronomy
September 20, 2022
- Allison McGraw - The Art of Planetary Science Presents: SMASHTROIDS!
- Tanner Campbell - Dynamical Manifolds: The Hyperdimensional Highways of Natural Systems
May 17, 2022
- Sarah Moran - Brewing up Hazy IPAs for Exotic Atmospheres
- Arash Roshanineshat - New Ground Breaking EHT Results: Milky Way Edition
January 18, 2022
- Andrew Ryan - Glowing Planets: Origins and History of Thermal Planetary Science
- Sebastiaan Haffert - The Origin of Planets and Moons