Super-Earth, Super-Tectonics?
Turns out there’s more than one way to “plate” a planet!
How a Moon-sized Deep Impact affected early Life on Earth
Do you you want to know how it was like on the early Earth? I can say you this: it probably wasn’t pretty.
A Different Kind of World-Changing Disaster: Another Carrington Event
A historic geomagnetic storm and the consequences of a similar event now.
BEYOND: Space Missions To Look Forward To In the 2020s
A brief summary of some of the major space missions that are planning to launch in the 2020s.
Studying the Earth’s Interior with (atmospheric) Neutrinos
Astrophysicists and their experiments normally look up, not down. IceCube is an exception. Here the density profile of the Earth is measured using neutrinos.
Can we constrain planetary mineralogy of the closest stars?
We can precisely measure chemical abundances for stars. This offers an intriguing possibility that we may, in the near future, start using these measurements to know more about the insides of rocky planets orbiting them.