The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sometimes planetary physics is like being in a snowball fight. Most people, if handed an already-formed snowball, can use their experience and the feel of the ball to guess what ...

Three students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at East Texas A&M University have been awarded competitive ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird's-eye ...

In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Physics, an international team of researchers studied the magnetic properties of ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have installed a new supercomputer that ranks among the 100 fastest computers in the world. The computer will be used for research in planetary ...

To understand planet formation, I am looking planets as they are being consumed by their star. This happens with dead stars, white dwarfs, where planets once in stable orbits spiral inwards and ...