07 July 2021
Methane detected on Enceladus could be a sign of life, study shows
... amount of methane detected by Cassini?" said Regis Ferriere, an associate professor in the University of Arizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and one of the study's two lead authors. Searching for methanogens in situ at Enceladus...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... for Spitzer (MIPS) instrument, with science leadership based at the University of Arizona in Tucson. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, developed the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) instrument, with science leadership based...
12 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx discovers ingredients for water on Bennu
... any insurmountable issues at Bennu so far,” said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson. “The spacecraft is healthy and the science instruments are working better than required. It is time now for our...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
... to directly image planets - a technique recently used by a team of astronomers headed by Kevin Wagner at the University of Arizona to search for exoplanet candidates orbiting Alpha Cen A. Their method involved outfitting ESO’s (European Southern...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... foundation’s ‘Breakthrough Initiatives’. He holds a BS in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona (where he became a research professor). Dr Worden has authored or co-authored more...
21 October 2020
OSIRIS-REx successfully touches asteroid Bennu
... gas firing, and back-away from Bennu are major accomplishments for the team,” said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson. If the sampling effort fell short of its 60 gram goal or indeed did not...
