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07-30-2026

Purdue launches weather balloons for the National Weather Service

WLFI — Every day, worldwide, nearly two thousand weather balloons are launched from weather service stations. Here at home, Purdue University launches weather balloons ahead of severe weather, just like they did on Monday. Professor Robin Tanamachi was interviewed for this story.

07-29-2026

Dinosaur-killing asteroid also created a dust cloud that insulated Earth, ‘charbroiling’ Cretaceous creatures

Planetary scientists Brandon Johnson and Alexandria Johnson studied the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, killing most of the dinosaurs. They discovered the impact swathed the planet in an insulating dust cloud that caused planetwide spontaneous combustion, atmospheric contamination and population collapse in any species that couldn’t take shelter.

07-14-2026

Ralph W. and Grace M. Showalter Research Trust Award Recipients

Assistant Professor Michael Vermeuel, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, receives the 2026 Showalter Research Trust Award.

06-23-2026

Space news: Tiny moon explorers, a debate about the expanding universe, and more

NPR — In this space news roundup, Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about tiny autonomous "transformers" that can explore the moon, a debate about the expanding universe, and more. EAPS's Roger Wiens was interviewed in this podcast.

06-23-2026

Lunar Magma Ocean Hypothesis May Get First Direct Test at Artemis IV South Pole Landing Site

Tech Times — A pair of peer-reviewed studies announced today by researchers at Southwest Research Institute reveal that the Moon's largest and oldest impact crater was carved by a protoplanet-sized object striking from the north — and that the collision scattered deep lunar mantle rock precisely where NASA plans to land the first Artemis astronauts in 2028. EAPS Research Scientist Shigeru Wakita was quoted in the article.

06-23-2026

Atlantic 'cold blob' is responsible for shifts in the Indian summer monsoon that threaten over 1 billion people

LiveScience — An abnormally cold patch of water in the North Atlantic Ocean has triggered changes in the Indian summer monsoon via the jet stream winds, new research suggests. This is new research co-authored by Purdue EAPS professor Matthew Huber and covered by LiveScience.

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