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Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org

Kimberly M. S. Cartier

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, Senior Science Reporter for Eos.org, joined the Eos staff in 2017 after earning her Ph.D. studying extrasolar planets. Kimberly covers space science, climate change, and STEM diversity, justice, and education

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Grandes Sequias Coincidieron con el Colapso Maya Clásico

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 17 November 202517 November 2025

El entendimiento de cómo las ciudades individuales respondieron al estrés climático ayudará a crear imágenes holísticas de cómo estas sociedades funcionaban.

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Speedy Flyby Adds New Organics to Enceladus’s “Primordial Soup”

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 12 November 202512 November 2025

A new analysis of old Cassini data has also verified past detections of complex organics in Saturn’s E ring, strengthening the chemical ties between the ring and its progenitor.

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Tiny Uranian Moon Likely Had a Massive Subsurface Ocean

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 24 October 202524 October 2025

Ariel’s tempestuous subsurface ocean may have once composed more than half its total volume.

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JPL Workforce Decimated

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 14 October 202514 October 2025

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., laid off 550 people, a roughly 11% reduction of its workforce.

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Ice Diatoms Glide at Record-Low Temperatures

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 7 October 20257 October 2025

New observations reveal how microscopic organisms move through polar ice and illustrate how they may have evolved to thrive in extreme environments.

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Science Agencies Shuttered in Government Shutdown

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Grace van Deelen and Kimberly M. S. Cartier 1 October 20251 October 2025

At 12:01 a.m. this morning, the U.S. federal government shut down. This shutdown comes after weeks of negotiations and pressure tactics failed to bring Congressional Republicans and Democrats together on a budget for the 2026 fiscal year or a continuing resolution to fund the government for a few more weeks.

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Small Satellites, Big Futures

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 29 September 20253 October 2025

Programs that teach students to design, build, and launch tiny satellites are helping to inspire the next generation of space scientists and engineers.

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Trio of Space Weather Satellites Take Flight

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 24 September 202524 September 2025

These three satellites will that study the solar wind and its impacts.

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Major Droughts Coincided with Classic Maya Collapse

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 24 September 202524 September 2025

Understanding how individual cities responded to climate stress will help create holistic pictures of how these societies functioned.

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Hayabusa2’s Final Target is 3 Times Smaller Than We Thought

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 18 September 202518 September 2025

It also spins twice as fast as previous estimates suggested. A spacecraft touchdown will be challenging, but not impossible.

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