We are thrilled to announce that UCLA's crowdfunding platform will launch a campaign to raise money for EPSS student field trips. 

Over the last decade, we’ve been privileged to offer many of these trips ...

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Undergraduate team builds two NASA satellites to study space weather

UCLA aims to be one of the few universities to ever complete such a sophisticated space ...

NASA's InSight mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base for Mars on May 5, 2018, sending a spacecraft that is expected to land on the surface of Mars on November 26, 2018. InSight (Interior ...

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Michigan

Emeritus Professor Margaret Kivelson was quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN about her team's results published today in Nature Astronomy.  The team ...

IMAGE: ESO/L. CALÇADA

Warren was the first to propose that vast differences in the make-up of defined sets of meteorites indicate that, even though they all come to Earth via the asteroid belt ...

Professor Kivelson is an accomplished scholar, mentor, and role model.  We were thrilled to celebrate her career with an event on campus on February 12, 2018.  We hope you enjoy the videorecording ...

The course EPSS 136C Field Geophysics provides one of the most powerful educational models in the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences.  Students consider a scientific question, go to the field for a ...