Looking for something to do outside while you socially distance? Since inside tours of the Geophysical Institute are temporarily suspended due to...

Senator Lisa Murkowski, chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, last week recorded the sixth episode of her new...

Volcanic eruptions are not easy to anticipate. Now, a new paper proposes a way to provide early clues by evaluating magma movement far beneath...

Robert McCoy, director of the Geophysical Institute at UAF, was elected to the governing board of USRA, the Universities Space Research...

Volcanoes can pulse and inflate before they erupt. Earthquakes can tear the ground along fault lines like a losing raffle ticket. Satellites can...

New analysis of materials from an archeological site in Syria suggests it may be the only human settlement we know about that was destroyed by...

University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists are providing strategic ice and weather expertise to the U.S. Navy during its Ice Exercise 2020 in the...

Andy Aschwanden received 2020’s Most Valuable Player award from the NASA Cryospheric Science Program last week. The award was in recognition of...

Venus was once Earth-like and maybe even habitable. Why is it so different from Earth now? This week NASA announced its selection of four...