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NASA's Asteroid-Capture Mission Uses New Screening Process To Choose Space Rock Targets
The space agency aims to use a robotic spacecraft to haul a near-Earth asteroid into a stable lunar orbit, where astronauts would visit it in the future.
Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Enter Construction Phase
Featuring the world's most advanced mirror design – developed at the UA – the Giant Magellan Telescope has cleared its design phase and now heads in to production.
Just Coming Through: Asteroid Toutatis
On the evening of Dec. 11, asteroid Toutatis whizzed by the Earth at a comfortable yet – cosmically speaking – close distance of...
Scientists Peer Into a Brown Dwarf, Find Stormy Atmosphere
A University of Arizona-led team of astronomers for the first time has used...
Tucson tech: Solar innovator gets $1M boost
With a major shakeout still ongoing in the solar-energy industry, new sun-harvesting technologies...
Comet Discovered at Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter
Dedicated only six months ago as the nation’s largest instrument of its kind devoted to public outreach and citizen science, ...
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