PHOENIX — From the bustling streets of Scottsdale to the red rocks of Sedona more than an hour away, a NASA research balloon had some Arizonans wondering whether they had spotted an alien spacecraft.
The Phoenix Mars Lander mission has been a successful steppingstone to greater discoveries on our neighboring planet, Peter Smith said Tuesday night.
The search for life on Mars continues. The Phoenix Mars Lander mission led by the University of Arizona tasted frozen water in material scooped from the planet's northern arctic region.
As spring arrives on the Martian southern hemisphere, weblike patterns of soil are appearing on the area's ice-covered surface.
Some of Tucson's best fiction writers are winners in the Pima County Public Library's Young Writers Competition.
The seeds of the next decade's cell phone, a cure for cancer or the solution to global warming could be germinating in the minds of the students participating in the 54th annual Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair next week.
It began with a purple ribbon. That was the prize I took home from a first-grade science project.
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