April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arizona and studied international and comparative law at the Hebrew University at Mt Scopus, Jerusalem. Leslie served as a Commissioner on the Arizona Space Commission from 1994 to 2000 and...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... in Boulder, Colorado. He has a BA in Geology from Franklin & Marshall College and a MS and PhD in the Geosciences from the University of Arizona. Dr Farrand has been a Participating Scientist on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission since 2002...
02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
...this minuscule signal has opened a new window on the early universe," says astronomer Judd Bowman of the University of Arizona, the lead investigator on the project. It has long been suspected that the first stars would be massive and therefore short...
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...
