The University of Arizona has joined a national multi-institution research partnership that aims to advance the manufacturing technologies required for achieving the benefits of fusion.

The University of Arizona ranks No. 1 in Arizona and No. 2 among all colleges and universities in the Big 12 Conference in The Washington Monthly's inaugural Best Colleges for Research ranking.

The gift from Esther Mitchell honors her late husband and creates a $1 million endowment to support the archive's preservation and student opportunities.

The figure accounts for the total funding allotment for all projects that in some way involved tribal communities, and that were active at any point in fiscal year 2025, including projects that have run for many years.

Fusion, the process that powers the sun, is moving from theory to reality. Horst Hahn, special advisor to the senior vice president in the Office of Research & Partnerships, describes the process of controlled fusion and the powerful applications of this emerging technology.

Using a cutting-edge optics system developed at the University of Arizona, researchers have gotten a glimpse of what our solar system likely looked like during its infancy.

A research team led by the U of A found that the brain of the extinct creature Jianfengia is very similar to that of living crustaceans, placing it in the ancestry of insects and crustaceans, not spiders and their relatives, as had been previously assumed.

The small mammals eat vegetation, create burrows and clear ground. How do those habits impact the spread of wildfires?

Three new papers reveal yet more secrets from samples collected by the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission from asteroid Bennu.

The observations will help astronomers refine their theories about the processes involved in planet formation and shed light on what our sun did when it was very young.