We explore how we observe changing worlds and skies, from the dark skies above Paranal and the shifting waters of the ...

The new fellows will study the evolution of viruses and cells, habitability on Mars and the formation of planetary systems.

Hurricane Melissa swirls south of Jamaica in this view captured from the International Space Station in October 2025. As Earth experiences a strong El Niño, satellites are helping scientists ...

An illustration of a protoplanetary disk; (inset) an artist's rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

A growing online movement of sunscreen skeptics believes that sunblock is toxic, even suggesting that it might cause skin cancer. Medical experts, concerned by rising skin cancer rates, are rushing to ...

Healthy rivers and riparian ecosystems are teaming with life, but should rivers themselves be considered alive? The question is central to the growing rights-of-nature movement that claims that ...

Research Interest: Dr. Pavithraa Sundararajan is an experimental Astrochemist, currently a NASA Postdoctoral (NPP) Fellow at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Sundararajan’s current research focus at the ...

Dingshan Deng studies protoplanetary disks, the disks of gas and dust around young stars where planetary systems form. His research focuses on how the physics and chemistry of these disks establish ...

Degree/Major: PhD. Natural and Human Sciences (Sciences de la Nature et de l'Homme : écologie et évolution) / Sorbonne University L. Felipe Benites is an evolutionary biologist who studies viruses, ...

Genesis Berlanga studies how planetary environments physically and chemically constrain the potential for life, and how scientists might identify those constraints beyond Earth. His research focuses ...

For decades, astronomers have been looking for moons beyond our Solar System. Several exomoon candidates have been proposed, but none has become an unambiguous, confirmed example. This object differs ...

What is so unusual about Neptune's moons? Neptune is the only giant planet in the Solar System without a system of large regular satellites. Around Jupiter and Saturn, larger moons orbit roughly in ...