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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
...USA. She received an undergraduate degree in physics at Rice University and a PhD in planetary science at the University of Arizona. She has been a member of five field teams with the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) programme and is a Fellow...
