By keenly probing mantle rheology, interactions of deformations and phase transitions, and microscopic features, he made major contributions to petrology, mineralogy, and earthquake science.Read More »Planetary Sciences
Mountains ringing the center of Earth's most famous impact crater consist of porous rocks. Computer models of the impact can now predict those rocks’ microstructure.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Despite ramped-up conservation efforts and hopes lifted by a few recent rainstorms, residents of the South African metropolis still face the possibility of a water doomsday.Read More »
Charles Bolden, who led NASA during the Obama administration, tells Eos that the new director can do a good job if he focuses on the agency’s mission, listens to the staff, and remains apolitical.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
Bridenstine says bipartisanship “is important in space.” Many Democrats, however, worry that he will be too partisan.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
Bridenstine, the first politician to lead the agency, is urged to run NASA in a nonpartisan manner and to support its science missions.Read More »Planetary Sciences
Scanning for traces of faraway worlds, TESS will make observations over an area hundreds of times larger than that observed by its predecessor, the Kepler Space Telescope.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
