UCLA is now one of the host institutions for the 51 Pegasi b fellowship offered by the Heising-Simons Foundation.

The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship provides exceptional postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational ...

John Rosenfeld, photo ca. 1963 (Guggenheim Foundation)

John Rosenfeld, photo ca. 2009 (EPSS)

EPSS wishes a very happy birthday to Emeritus Professor John Rosenfeld, who celebrates his 100^th on July 14, 2020 ...

NASA Spacecraft Helps Identify Solar Radiation Patterns That Expose the Moon

Professor Aradhna Tripati awarded for her incredible work on diversity, mentorship, community, and environmental justice.

Image courtesy of UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

The UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ...

Lisa Y. Garibay | June 4, 2020

From the UCLA Newsroom: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/margaret-kivelson-three-honors-royal-society

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this celebration, and best wishes to all our 2020 graduates and awardees!

EPSS Virtual Commencement Celebration

Date: June 13, 2020

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location ...

An artist’s depiction of the Van Allen Belts, showing Earth’s magnetic field lines and the trajectories of charged particles trapped by them. The twin ELFIN spacecraft are shown following their inclined polar orbit, traced in ...

Hubble Space Telescope image from April 20, 2020, of the comet C/2019 Y4 breaking into more than two dozen pieces.

Stuart Wolpert | April 28, 2020

In images captured in recent days by ...

With a team of researchers, Dr. Edward Young showed how a method for identifying atmospheric contamination of volcanic-gas samples reveals variations in the isotopic composition of nitrogen in the mantle, and provides a clearer view of the ...

Comet 2I/Borisov is the first interstellar comet and only the second interstellar object ever found in our solar system. And, now, it's breaking up. EPSS's Dr. David Jewitt leads a team that showed this process in ...