Space Grant Success Stories

Using UArizona's radio telescope on Kitt Peak, a team of astronomers probed a vast, cosmic cloud of gas and dust for traces of organic molecules that form the building blocks for life. The team found that such molecules appear hundreds of thousands of years before stars even begin to form.

Find out what this AY14-15 ASU intern works on now and who inspired her along the way.

After a year of circling close to near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS REx spacecraft is almost ready to dip down and collect a surface sample.

Moriba Jah, the keynote speaker for this year's AZSGC Symposium, is a leader in the field of space traffic management, coordinating the movement of satellites, spent rocket bodies, debris, and other objects in space.

The University of Arizona College of Engineering wind tunnels are getting $1.7 million in upgrades, which will boost the capabilities of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in high-speed aerodynamics research.

Arizona Space Grant's ASCEND balloon-satellite launch program featured on NASA.gov's latest stories as National Space Grant Program celebrates its 30th Anniversary!

An underwater vehicle from the Georgia Institute of Technology makes its first-ever visit to Thwaites Glacier’s grounding zone as part of the historic International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration.

A novel oxygenate molecule that can be produced from biomass shows promise for use as a blend for diesel fuel, according to researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

UA/NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellow, Charles Parrish, demoes a component of his Space Grant Outreach Fellowship work on accessible, immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences.