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 ...

2020 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Awarded to Early-Career Scientist, Hosted at UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Department

Studying the heritage of meteorites to develop a timeline for planet formation and other early solar ...

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Members of the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, which was founded ...

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An illustration shows the Earth’s magnetosphere during a magnetic storm. At right, three satellites witnessed reconnection close to geosynchronous orbit where many other critical satellites reside. The red “X” identifies the reconnection ...

A new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope provides important new details about the first interstellar comet astronomers have seen in our solar system. “Data from the Hubble Space Telescope give us the best measure ...

Schematic diagram showing the orbits of the 20 new moons, color coded as red = retrograde, green and blue = prograde, in two distinct groups. Illustration is courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science.

A team including ...