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UArizona faculty and students are part of an international study confirming that deployed satellites like BlueWalker 3 are as bright as the brightest stars seen by the unaided eye and pose a challenge for ground-based astronomy.

The Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory will start fabrication in the final stage to complete the Giant Magellan Telescope. It marks a milestone in the search for other, potentially Earth-like planets and the exploration of the universe.

The findings from new research, led by University of Arizona dendrochronologist Bryan Black, could have implications for seismic preparedness measures in the region.

The College of Science is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by featuring some of the College’s outstanding faculty with Hispanic roots. Our first featured faculty member is Dr. John Ruiz, a Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program.

The center, established in 2016 through a $3M endowment from an anonymous donor, fosters faculty engagement with the scholarship of teaching and learning through competitively awarded distinguished fellowships, as well as other grants and events.

After dropping off its historic sample from asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is headed to its next target: another potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid, called Apophis.

The delivery from the asteroid Bennu, seven years after the spacecraft launched, marks the end of the space-voyaging phase of the mission. Scientists will now study the rocks and dust to better understand the origins of life on Earth.

The curriculum for the Planetary Geoscience major builds on a foundation of mathematics, physics, and chemistry, establishes core knowledge and skills through a set of geoscience courses, advances through upper-level planetary science classes, and culminates in a capstone research or field experience.

Studying a lizard species in 18 mountain ranges in southeastern Arizona, researchers found 70 years' worth of climate-related extinction occurred in only seven years.