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As NEOWISE Comes to an End, NEO Surveyor Prepares for Launch

After more than a decade of mapping the sky, NASA’s NEOWISE telescope, the Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, was officially decommissioned last week. During its nearly 15-year run, NEOWISE observed the cosmos at infrared wavelengths and collected data on more than 740 million objects, including stars, galaxies and potentially hazardous asteroids. But the mission that...

Image of planets and non-planetary bodies of the solar system, with each group clustered together.

How to define a planet

UCLA Professor proposes a new definition of planets with more specific criteria.

Group photo of the ELFIN student team in the court of sciences at UCLA. 34 members of the team are pictured.

UCLA Undergraduate Student Team Wins NASA TechLeap Prize

Students in the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Department are finalists in the NASA Techleap competition to build a universal interface to support payload integration onto various commercial suborbital vehicles, orbital platforms, and planetary landers

Photo of Karen McKinnon in front of UCLA buildings blurred in the background.

Creating a new model for heat wave trends

Assistant Professor of Statistics and the Environment Karen McKinnon earned the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award for her work studying the trends in the intensity of extreme heat events.