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A photo of ocean water with ice pack

Q&A: Jonathan Lauderdale on how ocean carbon sequestration changes under different glacial conditions

October 23, 2026

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research

An ice cliff in Antarctica.

Satellite data reveal how Antarctica’s ice cliffs behave over time

October 15, 2026

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research, Students + Postdocs

A red sphere, left, sucks energy out of a brown sphere, causing a patch on the red sphere to glow white hot.

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

October 5, 2026

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Swirling clouds of a well-defined cyclonic storm seen from space.

MIT researchers are mapping extreme weather risks — and building tools to act on them

September 18, 2026

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

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

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 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

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

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

Has Earth’s climate ever changed as fast as it has today?

May 20, 2026

Categories: Climate, Research

The Haystack 37m Telescope: A new era of astrophysical research

May 19, 2026

Categories: Planets, Research

An air pollution meter being overrun with wildfire smoke.

3 Questions: Evaluating hourly air pollution forecasts in a time of more frequent wildfires

May 12, 2026

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

A rendering of a planetary atmosphere, showing a jet stream in shades of maroon.

New algorithm helps redefine our understanding of jet streams

May 4, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Earth’s atmosphere.

A regulatory loophole could delay ozone recovery by years

April 16, 2026

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

Two renderings show waves on Earth, right, and Titan with a floating ball and measuring stick in the water. Titan has huge waves while Earth has gentle waves.

Waves hit different on other planets

April 16, 2026

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

A cartoon cereal box is called “Phyt-O’s: the phytoplankton of the future” and shows a happy plankton with a bowl of plankton. Bubbles say “Carbs!” and “Protein?!”

Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton

March 31, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Earth, with layers of atmosphere. Molecules float in the layers.

A complicated future for a methane-cleansing molecule

March 24, 2026

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

A smartphone screen showing a World Meteorological Organization state of global climate warming graph.

3 Questions with Vincent Cooper: Refining climate warming projections by studying the past

March 20, 2026

Categories: Climate, Research, Students + Postdocs

New study reveals hidden “chemical currency” fueling the ocean’s carbon cycle

March 18, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Research

Map of a cyclone track.

Eos: Slow atmospheric circulations shape storm tracks and wave-breaking patterns

March 11, 2026

Categories: Climate, In the Media, Research