News Kelly Miller Honored with NASA Early Career Award Thursday LPL alumna Kelly Miller (2016) received a 2023 NASA Planetary Science Early Career Award in recognition of demonstrated leadership, involvement in the planetary science community, and potential for future impact. Dr. Kelly Miller, Research Scientist at Southwest Research Institute. Image Lava May Have Flowed Over Parts of Mars Dec. 19, 2023 LPL alumna Joana Voigt (2022) and teams from the University of Arizona and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, combined images taken with NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and measurements from ground-penetrating radar to recreate a 3D model of every individual lava flow they could detect evidence of in Elysium Planitia. Read more Image In a Galaxy Far, Far Away: UVU Professor Helps Discover Carbon Dioxide on Exoplanet Aug. 20, 2023 Joshua Lothringer (2019), assistant professor in the department of physics at Utah Valley University, helped discover the presence of carbon dioxide on an exoplanet 700 light years from Earth using the JWST. Read more Image NASA and STSI Interview with Nikole Lewis June 27, 2023 The Exocast team is joined by LPL alumna Nikole Lewis (2012), Professor and Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan institute at Cornell University. Read more Image NASA / ESA / STScI / G. Bacon. Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon June 15, 2023 Grinspoon earned his Ph.D. from LPL in 1989. Read more Image Ali Bramson Honored for Outstanding Teaching April 14, 2023 Ali Bramson (2018), assistant professor in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, explains how radar can be used to analyze a planet’s surface and what that could mean for the next mission to Mars. Read more Image Maria Steinrueck Named a 51 Peg b Fellow for 2023 March 30, 2023 Maria Steinrueck (2021) named 51 Pegasi b Fellow. The fellowship provides postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy. Read more Image Lifting the Veil Jan. 13, 2023 Sarah Hörst (2011) and Nikole Lewis (2012) team up to uncover properties of photochemical hazes in extrasolar planet atmospheres. Read more Image NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Hitching Ride to Moon on SpaceX Rocket Dec. 10, 2022 NASA’s Lunar Flashlight spacecraft is hitching a ride to space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket along with the privately-developed Hakuto-R moon lander. LPL Alum Barbara Cohen (2000) is the principal investigator for the Lunar Flashlight. Read more Image NASA NASA’s Lunar Flashlight SmallSat Readies for Launch Nov. 28, 2022 Barbara Cohen (2000) is the Lunar Flashlight principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Splace Flight Center. Read more Image NASA/JPL-Caltech Pagination … 1 2 3 4 5 … ›› Next page Last » Last page
Kelly Miller Honored with NASA Early Career Award Thursday LPL alumna Kelly Miller (2016) received a 2023 NASA Planetary Science Early Career Award in recognition of demonstrated leadership, involvement in the planetary science community, and potential for future impact. Dr. Kelly Miller, Research Scientist at Southwest Research Institute. Image
Lava May Have Flowed Over Parts of Mars Dec. 19, 2023 LPL alumna Joana Voigt (2022) and teams from the University of Arizona and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, combined images taken with NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and measurements from ground-penetrating radar to recreate a 3D model of every individual lava flow they could detect evidence of in Elysium Planitia. Read more Image
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away: UVU Professor Helps Discover Carbon Dioxide on Exoplanet Aug. 20, 2023 Joshua Lothringer (2019), assistant professor in the department of physics at Utah Valley University, helped discover the presence of carbon dioxide on an exoplanet 700 light years from Earth using the JWST. Read more Image NASA and STSI
Interview with Nikole Lewis June 27, 2023 The Exocast team is joined by LPL alumna Nikole Lewis (2012), Professor and Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan institute at Cornell University. Read more Image NASA / ESA / STScI / G. Bacon.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon June 15, 2023 Grinspoon earned his Ph.D. from LPL in 1989. Read more Image
Ali Bramson Honored for Outstanding Teaching April 14, 2023 Ali Bramson (2018), assistant professor in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, explains how radar can be used to analyze a planet’s surface and what that could mean for the next mission to Mars. Read more Image
Maria Steinrueck Named a 51 Peg b Fellow for 2023 March 30, 2023 Maria Steinrueck (2021) named 51 Pegasi b Fellow. The fellowship provides postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy. Read more Image
Lifting the Veil Jan. 13, 2023 Sarah Hörst (2011) and Nikole Lewis (2012) team up to uncover properties of photochemical hazes in extrasolar planet atmospheres. Read more Image
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Hitching Ride to Moon on SpaceX Rocket Dec. 10, 2022 NASA’s Lunar Flashlight spacecraft is hitching a ride to space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket along with the privately-developed Hakuto-R moon lander. LPL Alum Barbara Cohen (2000) is the principal investigator for the Lunar Flashlight. Read more Image NASA
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight SmallSat Readies for Launch Nov. 28, 2022 Barbara Cohen (2000) is the Lunar Flashlight principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Splace Flight Center. Read more Image NASA/JPL-Caltech