• About
  • Sections
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Blogs
    • Research & Developments
    • The Landslide Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
  • AGU.org
  • Career Center
  • Join AGU
  • Give to AGU
  • About
  • Sections
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Blogs
    • Research & Developments
    • The Landslide Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
Skip to content
  • AGU.org
  • Career Center
  • Join AGU
  • Give to AGU
Eos

Eos

Science News by AGU

Support Eos
Sign Up for Newsletter
  • About
  • Sections
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Blogs
    • Research & Developments
    • The Landslide Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos

cool tools

El vehículo explorador Mars 2020 Perseverance en la superficie de Marte en un selfie ensamblado a partir de varias imágenes tomadas por el brazo robótico del vehículo explorador. Uno de los tubos de almacenamiento de muestras del vehículo explorador está en el suelo delante del vehículo explorador.
Posted inFeatures

El pasado, presente y futuro de traer muestras extraterrestres

by Jemma Davidson and Jessica Barnes 23 October 202423 October 2024

La obtención de muestras de cuerpos distantes del sistema solar ha revolucionado nuestra comprensión del cosmos y del lugar que ocupamos en él.

A red-green-blue composite satellite view of farmland in Brazil comprising three images of a single polarization. Stream channels can be seen in white; circular and polygonal patches of land appear in a variety of colors.
Posted inScience Updates

A Cloud-Based Solution to a Radar Data Deluge

by Sargent Shriver, Franz J. Meyer, Alex Lewandowski, Eric Lundell and Dylan Palmieri 18 October 202418 October 2024

An open-science tool built to support NASA missions is making synthetic aperture radar, once the domain only of subject matter experts, more accessible for nonspecialists and real-world applications.

The orange glow from erupting lava illuminates the area around the summit of Kīlauea volcano under a star-filled night sky.
Posted inScience Updates

An Unprecedented Experiment to Map Kīlauea’s Summit Magma System

by Roger Denlinger, Daniel R. H. O’Connell, Guoqing Lin, Steve Roecker and Ninfa Bennington 18 September 202423 September 2024

Dozens of researchers deployed nearly 2,000 seismic stations—and a T-Rex—to better illuminate subsurface structure and magma storage below the summit of the highly active volcano.

A desert landscape vegetated by dry grass and shrubs.
Posted inNews

Fiber-Optic Cables Used to Measure Changing Soil Moisture

by Caroline Hasler 10 September 202410 September 2024

Scientists are using seismic techniques to measure soil moisture. Their results show that recent droughts in California depleted water in the shallow subsurface.

A narrow laser beam illuminates a point on a rocky seafloor outcrop surrounded by sand.
Posted inFeatures

Sensing Remote Realms of the Deep Ocean on Earth—and Beyond

by Anastasia G. Yanchilina, Laura E. Rodriguez, Roy Price, Laura M. Barge and Pablo Sobron 29 August 202417 October 2024

A novel laser-equipped probe is collecting measurements of deep-sea geochemical environments that once seemed impossible to gather, pointing the way toward future explorations of other ocean worlds.

Un científico en un traje plateado inserta un tubo largo de metal en la lava incandescente naranja y en la roca gris obscuro.
Posted inNews

¿Qué tan líquida es esa lava?

by Rebecca Owen 19 August 202419 August 2024

Un nuevo dispositivo ayuda a los científicos a medir la viscosidad de la lava durante los derrames activos.

A GPS station in a California desert
Posted inNews

U.S. Earthquake Early Warning System Gets a Major Upgrade

by Grace van Deelen 13 August 202413 August 2024

Satellite capabilities will improve the accuracy of ShakeAlert earthquake magnitude measurements.

Uranus as seen with the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam.
Posted inScience Updates

A Mission to Uranus Requires a Community-Building Effort on Earth

by Erin J. Leonard, Mark Hofstadter, Naomi Rowe-Gurney, Jamie M. Jasinski and David Atkinson 23 July 202423 July 2024

Planning the first mission to Uranus since the 1980s offers an opportunity to build a diverse, interdisciplinary team that spans generations.

The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is seen on Mars’s surface in a selfie assembled from several images taken by the rover’s robotic arm. One of the rover’s sample caching tubes is on the ground in front of the rover.
Posted inFeatures

The Past, Present, and Future of Extraterrestrial Sample Return

by Jemma Davidson and Jessica Barnes 17 July 202423 October 2024

Retrieving samples from distant solar system bodies has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos and our place in it.

A scientist in a silver suit inserts a long metal tube into glowing orange lava and dark gray rock.
Posted inNews

How Liquid Is That Lava?

by Rebecca Owen 12 July 202419 August 2024

A new device helps scientists measure lava viscosity during active flows.

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 … 35 Older posts
A view of a Washington, D.C., skyline from the Potomac River at night. The Lincoln Memorial (at left) and the Washington Monument (at right) are lit against a purple sky. Over the water of the Potomac appear the text “#AGU24 coverage from Eos.”

Features from AGU Publications

Research Spotlights

Proposed Experiment Could Clarify Origin of Martian Methane

12 May 202512 May 2025
Editors' Highlights

First Benchmarking System of Global Hydrological Models

7 May 20257 May 2025
Editors' Vox

Decoding Crop Evapotranspiration

6 May 20256 May 2025
Eos logo at left; AGU logo at right

About Eos
ENGAGE
Awards
Contact

Advertise
Submit
Career Center
Sitemap

© 2025 American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved Powered by Newspack