In order to make the course material more accessible for his student, professor David Kortenkamp utilized audio aids and enlarged or simplified graphics with great success.

The most common types of planets in the Milky Way have long been shrouded in mystery, and some of them may be very different than astronomers imagined, according to a team of researchers probing the atmosphere of planet GJ 1214 b.

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

Grief can be hard on the body, says Mary-Frances O’Connor, a psychology professor at the University of Arizona and author of “The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing.”

The U of A ranks No. 1 in the U.S. and No. 4 in the world in water resources, according to ShanghaiRanking's 2024 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.

Arizona Online ranks No. 12 among online bachelor's degree programs and ranks No. 5 on the Best Online Bachelor's Programs for Veterans list.

U of A astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black hole in the infrared, using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way. New observations challenge this view, suggesting that even dwarf galaxies can accrete mass from other small galaxies.

Regents’ Professor Marcia Rieke is the recipient of this year’s Russell Lectureship, which honors a full career of eminence is astronomical research.

The exoplanet mission, which will study of at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars, has cleared an important milestone with the completion of its spacecraft bus.