TONIGHT! Stop by to listen to Dr. Christopher Hamilton's evening lecture. Guests can come early to see some special exhibits as well!

There's only one week until the first 2025 LPL Evening Lecture with Dr. Christopher Hamilton! We encourage in-person attendees to come early to see special exhibits!

The application to join the LPL Planetary Sciences PhD program is now open! Visit lpl.arizona.edu/admissions for more information.

Asteroid Bennu – the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, led by LPL – is a mixture of materials from throughout, and beyond, our solar system. Over billions of years, its uniquely varied contents have been transformed by water and the space environment. news.arizona.edu/news/asteroi...

Dr. Hamilton is the first in our "Space on Earth" LPL Evening Lectures for Fall 2025! Come listen to Dr. Hamilton speak on "Mars on Earth: Testing Tomorrow's Mars Missions in Iceland." More information can be found here: www.lpl.arizona.edu/calendar/eve...

Please join us in congratulating Samantha Moruzzi, who today successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation, Geophysical Evolution of Sputnik Basin on Pluto. Congratulations, Samantha! 📸: Samantha is pictured with her advisor, Dr. Jeff Andrews-Hanna.

Kudos to our LPL alums! 🎉

It's time to mark your calendars! The 2025 LPL Evening Lecture Series features "Space on Earth." You can attend any lecture in-person or virtually. We hope to see you there! lpl.arizona.edu/calendar/eve...

A recently discovered extraterrestrial "visitor" is hurtling toward the inner solar system at 130,000 miles per hour and has quickly captured the attention of astronomers and space enthusiasts around the world, including here at LPL. news.arizona.edu/news/emissar...

Join LPL Prof. Pierre Haenecour at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum during Cool Summer Nights on July 19! More details can be found here: www.desertmuseum.org/visit/events...

Please join us in congratulating Samuel Myers, who today successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation, Understanding the Limits of Simple Thermal Models for Characterizing Near-Earth Asteroids. Congratulations, Sam! 📸: Sam is pictured with his Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Ellen Howell

Article on the potential impact to LPL planetary missions from the proposed NASA budget. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

The University of Arizona ranked #4 in space sciences globally according to the latest report from US News and World report! This ranking includes both LPL and @stewardobservatory.bsky.social. Read more about this honor here: www.usnews.com/education/be...

An international team of astronomers including researchers from LPL has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust surrounding nearby young stars, using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA. news.arizona.edu/news/reveali...

Take a look at the contribution to the commentary in Nature Astronomy by LPL graduate student Kayla Smith! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to LPL graduate student Anna Taylor! 🎉

Kudos to LPL graduate student Maizey Benner! 🥳

Please join us in congratulating Galen Bergsten, who today successfully defended their Ph.D. Dissertation, Modeling Exoplanet Demographics Across Detection Methods. Congratulations, Galen! 📸: Galen is pictured with their Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Ilaria Pascucci.

A new study led by LPL's Dr. Sam Crossley reveals a surprising new way planetary cores formed. news.arizona.edu/news/percola...

We are so excited to welcome this meteorite to LPL! Thank you Arizona State Museum for your generosity!

Team led by LPL graduate student Naman Bajaj uses JWST observations to provide a detailed look at how planets form from a turbulent cloud of hydrogen gas.

Congratulations, LPL Professor Ilaria Pascucci! 🥳

Kudos to LPL's Associate Professor Kris Klein! 🎉

Congratulations to our 2025 Galileo Circle Scholars!

Kudos to Mackenzie!

Congratulations, Chaucer! 🥳

Kudos to LPL grad student Anna Taylor! 🎉

Check out the new NASA film, "Planetary Defenders" which features some familiar LPL faces! youtu.be/jOb2DQWvDvc?...

Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to study young sub-Neptunes, a team led by LPL alum Rachel Fernandes and including other U of A scientists has published research providing new insights on planetary formation and evolution. news.arizona.edu/news/combina...

AABC Meets: Michael Phillips Our full interview with AABC member Michael Phillips, manager of the Space Imagery Center at @uarizonalpl.bsky.social , @uarizona.bsky.social youtu.be/nWm7mg4Ol1g #astrobiology

AABC Shorts: You Can Bring Your Strengths to This Field AABC member Michael Phillips, manager of the Space Imagery Center, @uarizonalpl.bsky.social , @uarizona.bsky.social tells us what he would say to high school students about pursuing their interests in astrobiology. youtu.be/tM1KpIzsGSk

AABC Shorts: This is Why I Came to the U of A AABC member Michael Phillips, manager of the Space Imagery Center at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, tells why it was an easy choice to come to the U of A. youtu.be/Ps9d-aFfXcc @uarizona.bsky.social @uarizonalpl.bsky.social

A research team led by LPL Postdoctoral Research Associate Feng Long reports a detailed observation of a protoplanetary disk at the ripe old age of 30 million years. news.arizona.edu/news/james-w...

Today's Arizona Science radio show has LPL's Professor Shane Byrne talking about tracking seasons on Mars. originals.azpm.org/p/radio-azsc...

We are excited to see the all new content that LPL's @catalinaskysurvey.bsky.social shares! Make sure to follow them so you don't miss a thing!

LPL's Prof. Steve Kortenkamp helps develop astronomy curriculum materials to aid visually impaired students science.arizona.edu/news/univers...

LPL scientists like Dr. DellaGuistina and Dr. Bray are transforming seismic technology into tools that can survive space. From icy moons like Europa, asteroids, and our moon, these planetary seismometers unlock hidden worlds beneath. youtu.be/HaPjaDPBtzU?...

Europa Clipper is a NASA mission to study Jupiter’s moon Europa, a world that might harbor alien life. LPL is involved with two key instruments which will map above and below the moon’s surface to examine whether life could survive below the surface. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFLm...

Nature had the conditions to "cook up" the chemical precursor ingredients for life before Earth formed, according to studies published by the sample analysis team of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, which is led by LPL's Regents Professor Dante Lauretta. news.arizona.edu/news/asteroi...

Learn more about LPL Professor Jack Holt's Snow4Flow mission to study arctic glaciers with the goal of improving climate modeling and predicting sea level rise. tv.azpm.org/p/new/2025/1...

Congrats to LPL alums Dr. James Keane and Dr. Michelle Thompson on their Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers! www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

Please join us in congratulating Ricardo Maciel, who today successfully defended his M.S. Thesis, Characterization of a Tunable All-Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer. Congratulations, Ricky! 📸: Ricky is pictured with his M.S. advisor, Dr. Walt Harris.

LPL scientists discover 'kiss and capture' mechanism to explain the formation of Pluto and its largest moon. news.arizona.edu/news/newly-d...

Recent alum Adam Battle received a $1M grant from NASA. In partnership with his mentor, LPL Professor Vishnu Reddy, they will continue characterizing near-earth asteroids for the next four years. research.arizona.edu/news/million...

Kudos, Namya!

LPL Regents Professor Dante Lauretta is co-author of a new article suggesting the order with which amino acids – building blocks of the genetic code – were recruited is at odds with what is widely considered the "consensus" of genetic code evolution. news.arizona.edu/news/study-s...

The University of Arizona, which includes LPL, has held the NSF's No. 1 ranking in astronomy and astrophysics expenditures each year since 1987. news.arizona.edu/news/u-proje...

LPL's Professor Ilaria Pascucci discusses a new study on protoplanetary disks, described as a cradle where new planets are born. originals.azpm.org/p/radio-azsc...

If you are planning on applying to our PhD program for Fall 2025, applications are due this coming Friday, December 13, 2024 at 5:00pm MST. Find more information here: www.lpl.arizona.edu/admissions

LPL scientists detected space rock that fell over Russia. news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/2...