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UArizona and Operation Hat Trick support local veterans for sixth straight year

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The University of Arizona is again teaming with a nonprofit through the sale of military-themed merchandise.

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Arizona Football defensive line coach Ricky Hunley communicates with players on the field during the Nov. 18 football game against Utah.

Tracking an errant space rocket to a mysterious crater on the moon

Nov. 16, 2023

A University of Arizona team tracked down a contested piece of space junk that crashed onto the moon. Their findings shed light on why it left not one but two craters.

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The far side of the moon, with distant Earth in the background, is visible in this photo taken by the Chang'e 5-T1 mission.

OSIRIS-REx flies on as OSIRIS-APEX to explore a second asteroid

Oct. 31, 2023

NASA extended the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission, which has since been renamed OSIRIS-APEX. The spacecraft will study another potentially hazardous, near-Earth asteroid named Apophis. 

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A spacecraft flies by an asteroid in the blackness of space

Digital terrain models zero in on Martian surface

Oct. 25, 2023

A team of scientists at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory brings alien landscapes to life by creating realistic, to-scale digital terrain models from scientific data.

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Digital terrain model of Ganges Chasma on Mars shows two mountain ridges forming a steep canyon.

Researchers probe how a piece of the moon became a near-Earth asteroid

Oct. 23, 2023

A University of Arizona team has found that an interesting pathway could have led the moon fragment to reach Earth's orbital space, suggesting there could be many more.

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An artistic representation of a meteorite impacting the moon surface

UArizona launches Arizona Astrobiology Center to unlock the mysteries of life in the universe

Oct. 17, 2023

The center will bring together students and faculty from across campus to unravel the enigma of life's beginnings and our place in the cosmos.

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The asteroid Bennu

UArizona researchers are part of NASA's next astrophysics mission

Oct. 10, 2023

A research group at the Arizona Cosmology Lab is developing a method to study dark energy for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, which is scheduled to launch by 2027.

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Roman Observatory

Bennu sample delivery marks the start of extended OSIRIS-APEX mission

Sept. 24, 2023

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.

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A spacecraft flying above an asteroid

A gift from space: UArizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission delivers largest-ever asteroid sample to Earth

Sept. 24, 2023

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.

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three people approaching a tire-sized capsule in the middle of a desert landscape

OSIRIS-REx 101: Brush up on the basics before Bennu's sample touches down

Sept. 20, 2023

Ahead of Sunday's sample delivery, learn about the asteroid, the spacecraft and the people starring in the historic OSIRIS-REx mission, which will launch decades of scientific research and could help explain the origins of the solar system and life itself.

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a spacecraft hovering over a rocky asteroid

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