Gold has long been regarded as one of the most chemically inert elements, a stable constant in both scientific ...

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 ...

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 ...

Orkan Umurhan is a planetary physicist who brings an applied mathematical background to confront a wide array of physical processes ranging from the turbulent origins of the solar system's first ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one young star should help us understand how such systems form ...