Edwin Kite, a white man with short hair, wears a collared shirt and smiles

Edwin Kite

Departmental website:
http://sseh.uchicago.edu/

Edwin Kite is a planetary scientist who studies the evolution of rocky planets. Kite and the students and postdocs working with him - the Solar System and Exoplanet Habitability research group - use models and geologic data analysis to address questions including Which exoplanets have atmospheres, and why?, Why did Mars' surface become uninhabitable?, and Is terraforming Mars feasible?

Kite is a member of the Mars Curiosity rover science team, a co-recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the most outstanding paper published in Science, and a recipient of the the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Science. He is a former Scialog Fellow.

Kite Stories

Scientists lay out revolutionary method to warm Mars Image of planet Mars on a black background

Scientists lay out revolutionary method to warm Mars

UChicago, Northwestern study suggests new approach to warm Mars could be 5,000 times more efficient than previous proposals

In surprise discovery, NASA rover finds cracks in ancient Martian mud NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover takes a selfie on Mars

In surprise discovery, NASA rover finds cracks in ancient Martian mud

Conditions that created the cracks could have been favorable for emergence of microscopic life

Was Venus ever habitable? New UChicago study casts doubt Side by side view of Venus and Earth

Was Venus ever habitable? New UChicago study casts doubt

Research suggests the planet lost its water early on in its history

Why did Mars dry out? New study points to unusual answers Overhead view of large formation with a dry riverbed cutting through center

Why did Mars dry out? New study points to unusual answers

Study led by UChicago scientist deepens mystery about climate of early Mars

Icy clouds could have kept early Mars warm enough for rivers and lakes, study finds Illustration of Mars Perseverance

Icy clouds could have kept early Mars warm enough for rivers and lakes, study finds

Simulation led by UChicago geoscientist finds missing piece to Martian climate puzzle

There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres Artist illustration of the exoplanet WASP-121b

There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres

UChicago study finds way that hot, rocky planets in other systems could form and keep atmospheres

Climate change will ultimately cost humanity $100,000 per ton of carbon, scientists estimate Visualization map showing sea level rise from 1992 to 2014

Climate change will ultimately cost humanity $100,000 per ton of carbon, scientists estimate

UChicago study: ‘Ultimate cost’ of carbon 1,000 times greater than cost to current generation

UChicago study illuminates fates of distant planetary atmospheres Extrasolar Planets

UChicago study illuminates fates of distant planetary atmospheres

Researchers simulate thousands of worlds to see what happens to planets with hydrogen atmospheres

Why some planets eat their own skies View of a star partially obscured by a large rocky planet with magma ocean

Why some planets eat their own skies

Salt deposits on Mars hold clues to sources of ancient water Salt mountain

Salt deposits on Mars hold clues to sources of ancient water

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