A prolific researcher with over 300 refereed publications, Dr. Zaritsky has also mentored dozens of students and postdocs, many now leaders in academia and industry. As chair of the Giant Magellan Telescope Science Advisory Council, he has shaped national priorities in astronomy.

In one of the biggest surprises of the OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders.

CBC connects science with the Tucson community through outreach programs that bring hands-on chemistry demonstrations to local schools and events. Led by student groups and supported by faculty and staff, the programs aim to make science accessible, spark curiosity in young students and show that anyone can be a scientist.

Using computer simulations, researchers at the University of Arizona model the formation of giant impact basins, or craters, on 16 Psyche in preparation for the arrival of NASA's Psyche mission in 2029.

A new U of A study raise questions about how scientists use the Small Magellanic Cloud, our neighboring galaxy, as a reference point for understanding galaxies across the history of the universe.

With a $1 million investment from the Governor’s Office of Resiliency, researchers at the Arizona Geological Survey, or AZGS, housed in the University of Arizona College of Science, have launched a landmark two-year effort to update and map Arizona’s untapped geothermal potential.

The Covid pandemic was an extraordinary moment in history. Starting at the end of 2019, a virus new to science swept across the planet, killed more than 25 million people and caused trillion of dollars in economic damage.

But as outbreaks go, Covid was pretty ordinary, a new study finds.

The Wildcat Philanthropic Seed Fund has made its first investments in three venture-ready companies: CarbeniumTec, LifeSpan Digital Health and UGenome AI.

A team at Steward Observatory was awarded a contract to develop a coronagraph and a wide-field camera for the Lazuli Space Telescope part of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System.

An outpouring of magma isn’t the biggest risk to people downhill from Mount Rainier in Washington. The active volcano’s greatest danger comes from lahars — amalgams of mud, rock and water that are as dense as wet concrete.