Take a journey outward from Earth, where satellites track the ocean heat that can fuel hurricanes, to the icy cliffs of Mars ...

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 ...

The night sky stretches above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the world’s premier locations for ground-based astronomy. This view was captured beside Paranal’s Visitor ...

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 ...

The Moeraki Boulders look almost too perfect to be natural — but these giant stone spheres along New Zealand’s Koekohe Beach were formed over millions of years. Scientists believe the boulders began ...

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 ...

Our team’s research is driven by a single scientific question: “How can we best assess whether an exoplanet supports life?” To answer this, the massively interdisciplinary VPL Team develops and ...

Dr. He is a SETI Postdoctoral Research Fellow and previously a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow, working on the Kepler Reprocessing Project. His office remains at the NASA Ames Research Center.

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, ...

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

The Discovery and Futures Lab’s mission is to anticipate and explore humanity’s responses to the discovery of life beyond Earth by connecting science with other kinds of research. It unites experts in ...