Geophysical Sciences

Victor Barcilon standing in front of a blackboard in 1980

Victor Barcilon, applied mathematician and geophysical scientist, 1939–2020

Illustration of Mars Perseverance

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

Artist illustration of a bright star surrounded by rings of slowly differentiating material

Earth’s building blocks formed during the solar system’s first million years, study finds

Artist illustration of the exoplanet WASP-121b

There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres

artist illustration of bright sun surrounded by glowing disk of matter

Ceramic chips inside meteorites hint at wild days of the early solar system

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