NASA awarded funding to Feryal Ozel, Kris Klein, and Dimitrios Psaltis for their project “Hybrid Kinetic-GRMHD simulations of Black Hole Accretion with Data-Calibrated Electron Physics.” The project aims to address two main aspects of electron thermodynamics and...

Assistant Professor Gurtina Besla at the Steward Observatory Department of Astronomy has been recently notified that she will be a recipient of an NSF 2020 Career Award for her proposal:CAREER: Constraining the Nature and Distribution of Dark Matter in the Era of...

Physics Associate Professor Dr. Eduardo Rozo has been selected to receive this year's Curie award, sponsored by the Galileo Circle of the College of Science. The award recognizes Eduardo as a rising star in his field and notes that his innovative work is not only...

"For contributions to theoretical cosmology and astrophysics, in particular, pioneering approaches to modeling key observables and extracting cosmological constraints from large galaxy surveys." Elisabeth joins Feryal Özel (in 2013) as UA faculty who have been awarded...

University of Arizona astronomer Peter Behroozi was awarded a Packard Fellowship, which he will use to get to the bottom of a long-standing mystery: How could supermassive black holes grow so big so quickly after the Big Bang?

WINNERS OF THE 2020 BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE IN LIFE SCIENCES, FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS ANNOUNCED September 5, 2019 – (San Francisco) – The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founding sponsors – Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huateng, Yuri...

Congratulations to Josh Lothringer, of the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory for winning the 2019 Graduate Student Research Prize. The prize included an invite to speak at a TAP Colloquium, a plaque, and a $500 stipend. His paper was published in The Astrophysical...

On Feb 13 NASA announced the selection of a new space mission that will help astronomers understand both how our universe evolved and how common are the ingredients for life in our galaxy’s planetary systems. The SPHEREx mission (Spectro-Photometer for the History of...

UA Scientists Gear Up to 'Touch the Sun' 56 years ago, a now-retired UA research scientist helped build the technology that enabled humankind to stick its thumb into the solar wind for the first time. Now, her colleagues in the Lunar and Planetary Lab are awaiting the...

AAS NOVA Spotlights Grad Student Lia Medeiros' Paper In a new article, AAS Nova has highlighted Steward Observatory’s Lia Medeiros, Feryal Ӧzel, Dimitrios Psaltis, and NOAO’s Tod Lauer for their paper, “Principal Component Analysis as a Tool for Characterizing Black...