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...
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
Computational & Systems Biology undergraduate researcher Elise Ỷ-lan Tran has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to visit Vietnam to conduct research aimed at assisting the Deaf community.
UCLA researchers’ work upends our understanding of the connections between the solid Earth dynamics and the long-term carbon cycle, with implications for the search for life in outer space.
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.