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Earth and Planets Laboratory

Earth and Planets Laboratory
An artist’s concept of WASP-18 b, with a lightly orange cast, created by Keith Miller (Caltech/IPAC).
May 31, 2023
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JWST Finds Traces of Water in a Super-hot Gas Giant’s Atmosphere

Yellow needle-like crystals of the mineral rutherfordine. Photo is courtesy of The RRUFF Project @RRUFF.info.
May 25, 2023
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Predicting where to find valuable minerals

This artist's concept is based on Hubble Space Telescope images of gas-and-dust disks around the young star TW Hydrae. Hubble Space Telescope photos show shadows sweeping across the disks encircling the system. Credit: NASA, AURA/STScI for ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI).
May 04, 2023
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Peek-a-boo disk shows evidence of a previously unseen baby planet forming around young star

Water close-up courtesy of Unsplash
April 12, 2023
Breaking News

How did Earth get its water?

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo from the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, Sept. 2, 2014. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
March 15, 2023
Breaking News

Where Did Earth’s Water Come From? Not Melted Meteorites.

Diamond Anvil Cell

This diamond anvil cell was crafted on-site in the EPL machine shop, saving scientists time and money on their high-pressure research. Photo Credit: Victor Lugo

March 06, 2023
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Superdiamond carbon-boron clathrates represent a promising new class of conventional superconductors

Artist's conception of a a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science.
February 21, 2023
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“Forbidden” planet orbiting small star challenges gas giant formation theories

Illustration showing Earth's differentiated layers.
February 15, 2023
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What do early Earth’s core formation and drip coffee have in common?

An image of Jupiter from NASA’s JUNO spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

 

An image of Jupiter from NASA’s JUNO spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

February 10, 2023
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Jupiter back on top as “moon king”

Chondrite image purchased from Shutterstock
January 26, 2023
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Solar System formed from “poorly mixed cake batter,” isotope research shows

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