Geophysical Sciences

Horace R. Byers pictured with Ferguson Hall and Lewis Meng at Pinecastle Army Airfield

The World War II-era Chicago school of meteorology that decoded weather forecasting

Nice Gneiss

New study helps pinpoint when Earth’s tectonic plates began

Sunrise From the International Space Station

UChicago scientists reveal new clues into how Earth got its oxygen

Prof. Ted Fujita in his lab next to a machine that simulates a small-scale tornado

How one scientist reshaped what we know about tornadoes

Visualization map showing sea level rise from 1992 to 2014

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

Extrasolar Planets

UChicago study illuminates fates of distant planetary atmospheres

black and white image, close-up of crystalline dust fragment

UChicago, Field Museum scientists discover oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust

Seal traverses sheet of Antarctic sea ice

Antarctic sea ice is key to triggering ice ages, study finds

Object hitting Earth illustration

NASA moon rocks help form new picture of early moon and Earth

Data points

How AI could change science