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Q&A with Professor of the Practice Raymond Pierrehumbert: The geology of planetary atmospheres

June 29, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Planets

The surface of Venus, with cloudy atmosphere. In two insets are stringy, colorful peptides.

Study: Peptides can form well-defined structures in harsh, Venus-like conditions

September 1, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Planets, Research

Sai Ravela, Anamitra Saha, and Jayanta Basu sit at a table with markers, drawing symbols onto a large piece of paper lined with a grid.

Playing against climate risk

August 31, 2026

Categories: Climate, Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Natural Hazards

Gage Coon portrait, seated, with two yellow chairs in foreground.

Gage Coon: An Earth scientist exploring the power of microbes

August 28, 2026

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Natural Resources, Profile, Students + Postdocs

An artist's drawing of the Pandora spacecraft with an exoplanet and two stars in the background.

NASA’s Pandora Mission Begins Study of Exoplanets, Host Stars

August 25, 2026

Categories: In the Media, Planets

Around a glowing star is a disc of swirling rocks, with perpendicular lines of magnetism.

Meteorite dust holds records of magnetism that may have helped form the sun

August 24, 2026

Categories: Alumni, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

A photo of Sheila Baber in front of cherry blossoms in Washington, DC

Sheila Baber ’21 Combines Love of Farming, Passion for Space

August 20, 2026

Categories: Alumni, Life + Environments, Natural Resources, Profile

Exploring the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition with Lyle Nelson and the GSA

August 13, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media, Life + Environments

Richard Teague named 2026 NSF CAREER recipient

August 10, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

MIT's Great Dome

MIT projects, including one led by Laurent Demanet, selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission

July 23, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A sequence of images of Mars in crescent phase growing larger that were taken as the Psyche spacecraft approached Mars.

Psyche spacecraft delivers Mars flyby data, detailed look at Mars’ magnetic signatures

July 17, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

A time-lapse photo of a telescope dome at the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory. Star tracks, as well as firefly tracks, can be seen in the sky.

Wallace Observatory spotlighted in AACU Magazine feature

July 9, 2026

Categories: In the Media, Planets

Noelle Selin named as TEPCO Professor

July 1, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A portrait of Raymond Pierrehumbert next to an image of the atmosphere of Jupiter.

Q&A with Professor of the Practice Raymond Pierrehumbert: The geology of planetary atmospheres

June 29, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Planets

Vintage-inspired collage shows Earth’s ozone layer, in yellow, hit by sun rays. Mod-style stars represent ozone and some are being destroyed by the sun rays.

Scientists find ozone depletion began decades before discovery of ozone hole

June 29, 2026

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research, Students + Postdocs

A portrait of Jess Speedie

Jess Speedie recognized by IAU with 2025 PhD Prize Honourable Mention

June 26, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Fossil wall of various species.

What happens when environmental change outpaces life’s ability to adapt?

June 24, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Perrin Davidson stands, posing, against an indoor angled pillar.

Characterizing Earth’s damping mechanisms

June 24, 2026

Categories: Health of the Planet, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Profile, Students + Postdocs

A portrait of Susan Solomon

Susan Solomon named 2026 Tang Prize laureate

June 15, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet

As cities grow around weather stations, does the hot pavement skew our measurements of global warming?

June 10, 2026

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Side-by-side portraits of Matej Pec and Richard Teague.

Matěj Peč and Richard Teague promoted

June 9, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers