Thursday night, look to the southwest around 6:15 p.m. If you have a clear sky, you will see ever-brilliant Venus two degrees above the horizo…
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- Patti Nickell, Tribune News Service
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz — America may be celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2026, but its most fabled highway is doing some celebrating of its own. Route 66, running from Chicago to Santa Monica through eight states, turns 100 in November of this year. (If you are a keeper of trivia, those eight states are Illinois, Missouri, Kansas — even if it’s for only 13 miles — Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, ...
- Henry Brean
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NASA chief Jared Isaacman was here to highlight the University of Arizona’s outsized role in space exploration.
‘Weird’ science: U of A grad helped get asteroid named after Al Yankovic- Henry Brean
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Thanks to the efforts of a University of Arizona grad, “Weird Al” Yankovic now has an asteroid named after him. Yankovic is playing a concert here Sunday.
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Rovers on the ground like NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity, as well as orbiters overhead, continue to explore and document striking features …
- Joey Roulette and Will Dunham Reuters
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Its mission is to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology.
- Henry Brean
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For Star subscribers: Several University of Arizona researchers are connected to NASA’s latest space telescope. It launched from Kennedy Space Center early Sunday morning.
- Joey Roulette and Will Dunham Reuters
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CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA's new flagship astronomical observatory was launched into space from Florida on Sunday on a mission to probe some of the…
- WILL DUNHAM Reuters
Research finds some fungi and bacteria could survive weeks to months on the lunar surface, raising concerns about microbial contamination during human moon missions.
- Henry Brean
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University of Arizona scientists are developing EMILIA-3D, a camera designed to capture high-resolution infrared and 3D images of the lunar surface to improve understanding of heat transfer and volatile distribution on the moon, supporting future exploration efforts.