Gov. Katie Hobbs appointed Hamden, a renowned expert on ultraviolet telescopes, to the commission to help shape Arizona's role in aerospace and space sciences.

The Wildcat Philanthropic Seed Fund is ready to begin making its first investments to help launch startups from the innovations of faculty, staff, students and alumni.

"Universe of Science" is an interactive exhibit that explores everything from microscopic worlds to monsoon storms to the farthest reaches of deep space.

Five U of A faculty and staff were recognized with Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Mentoring and Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Two research publications by the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team suggest that conditions for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

Some of the most common types of planets in the Milky Way may be very different than astronomers imagined, according to researchers probing the atmosphere of planet GJ 1214 b.

A paper by U of A associate professor Susan Swanberg explains how the Oscar-winning 1953 film, shot in Tucson, failed to live up to its claim as a "true-life adventure."

U of A astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black hole in the infrared.

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.