UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

08/19/2026

Congrats again to LPL grads Namya Baijal and Ruby Fulford!

Learn more about the 2026 Amelia Earhart Fellows! ✈️

This year, 30 remarkable women from around the world are advancing groundbreaking research in aerospace engineering, planetary science, robotics and more. Carrying forward Amelia Earhart’s pioneering legacy, these scholars are expanding the frontiers of discovery while inspiring the next generation of .

Learn more about the 2026 Fellows and their innovative research: https://zonta.org/Web/News_Events/Articles/2026_AE_Fellows_bios

08/19/2026

Introducing the Fall 2026 LPL Evening Lecture Series! More information can be found here: https://lpl.arizona.edu/calendar/evening-lectures

08/12/2026

Check out the updates on the LPL-led LEMS instrument!

NASA has declared “wrenches down” on the first completed payload designed for Artemis astronauts to deploy on the Moon's surface. Engineers working on NASA’s

07/27/2026

Please join us in congratulating Dingshan Deng, who today successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation, Measuring Disk Masses with CO Isotopologues Using Self-Consistent Models.

📸:Dingshan is pictured with his Ph.D. advisors, Dr. Uma Gorti and Dr. Ilaria Pascucci

07/27/2026

Read about LPL-led Snow4Flow, which seeks to measure and model how far and fast glaciers are retreating in the far north.

The first of six new airborne campaigns will hit the skies this summer.

07/23/2026

LPL graduate student Kayla Smith is taking planetary sciences lessons to Pima County Juvenile Detention Center!

A planetary sciences graduate student developed the curriculum herself and chose to bring it to the detention center.

07/06/2026

Check out LPL's Dr. Dani DellaGiustina on the latest episode of Looking Up as she discusses "What Did NASA Find on Asteroid Bennu?"

What is a potentially hazardous asteroid like? Up close and personal? Very few space missions have visited asteroids and fewer still have touched an asteroid and brought some of it back to Earth. Dean chats with NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission's image processing lead scientist, Dr. Daniella Mendoza DellaG...

06/30/2026

Thank you Senator Mark Kelly! LPL appreciates all of your support for space science!

As a former NASA astronaut and Arizona's senator, I couldn't be prouder that The University of Arizona is leading the way in space science. This is exactly the kind of American innovation and excellence we should be investing in.

06/26/2026

LPL's Professor Lynn Carter and team developed SESAR-LITE, a radar instrument designed to search for water ice and map lunar subsurface terrain, which has completed critical thermal vacuum and preliminary antenna testing.

The TVAC’s inaugural test subject, SESAR-LITE, marks the university's entry into an exclusive testing arena, positioning the Space Institute alongside established government and commercial testing facilities. SESAR-LITE, is a high-resolution low frequency radar instrument designed to peer beneath ...

06/25/2026

Kudos to LPL graduate students Namya Baijal and Ruby Fulford!