November 3, 2026
Wacky Magnetic Fields of Ice Giants Explained
When NASA’s Voyager 2 robotic probe flew by Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s, it uncovered an anomaly: their magnetic fields are highly disordered, unlike…
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Faraway Tectonic Forces May Have Accelerated the Gulf of California Rifting
When the Baja California peninsula broke from mainland Mexico nearly 12 million years ago it gave rise to the Gulf of California. New research suggests…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2026
Researchers Map Aquifer From the Surface Using Remote Sensing and Statistical Models
Groundwater in many areas of the U.S. and across the globe is being depleted as pumping for drinking water and agriculture outpace nature’s ability to…
Read MoreOctober 6, 2026
Chenguang Sun Wins NSF CAREER Award
Chenguang Sun, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from…
Read MoreSeptember 28, 2026
Meteor hit Oklahoma 100 Million Years Later Than Previously Thought
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have rewritten a small part of Oklahoma’s geologic history with global implications for ancient life. Below the…
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2026
Jackson School Researchers Win Top Awards from AGU
Three researchers and a former postdoctoral fellow at the Jackson School of Geosciences have received top awards from the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the world’s…
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