Kuiper Space Sciences News Today

Designed to show the relative sizes and distances of solar system objects true to scale, 11 plaques have been installed across campus. Zarah Brown, a doctoral student at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, led the project in an effort to make space science accessible to people of all ages.

When OSIRIS-REx returns its asteroid samples to Earth Sept. 24, two University of Arizona researchers will be among the first to examine the precious material.

Planetary scientists have identified a potential source of shock-darkened meteorites, which have dark veins.

In a new paper published in the Planetary Science Journal, University of Arizona scientists identified an asteroid named 1998 OR2 as one potential source of shock-darkened meteorites.

The U.S. Space Surveillance Network tracks tens of thousands of artificial satellites orbiting Earth. But no such group monitors traffic around the moon, or in the cislunar space space in between.Now University of Arizona has received a $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Air Force Research Lab Space Vehicles Directorate to do exactly that.

A group of students has confirmed that a rocket stage poised to hit the moon next month is from a Chinese Long March launcher, not a SpaceX Falcon 9 as originally thought.

For weeks, UArizona students have been gathering data on a high-profile piece of space junk as it hurls toward lunar impact on March 4. They have confirmed that it is a rocket booster of Chinese origin rather than a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster.