EAPS News

05-01-2026

Purdue researcher earns NOAA award to study the atmosphere's extreme large-scale patterns and extreme weather

A new federal award will help Purdue University researcher Lei Wang better understand the large-scale atmospheric patterns behind extreme weather events and improve the tools scientists use to study them.

04-30-2026

Purdue’s space work is featured at NASA Science Showcase

A Purdue professor and graduate student participated in the NASA Science Showcase recently on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The April 21 event highlighted how NASA-funded science research across disciplines strengthens America’s leadership and fuels the broader space program. Staff from many Senate and House of Representatives offices attended.

04-23-2026

Where did our Moon come from?

NPR — EAPS assistant professors Kelsey Prissel and Tabb Prissel were recently featured on NPR’s Short Wave podcast, discussing how the Moon formed and why lunar exploration and sample-return science matter. It’s a fun listen for everyone and a great example of how Purdue scientists are helping bring planetary science to the public.

04-22-2026

Purdue researchers uncover deep mantle process that reshaped the North American midcontinent

A hidden rupture deep beneath North America may have reshaped the landscape of the central United States hundreds of millions of years ago. New research led by Purdue University found that a dense part of the continent's deep rocky foundation likely peeled away and sank into the mantle, allowing hotter, lighter material to rise and lift the land above it.

04-22-2026

Discovery from NASA's Perseverance rover adds new evidence that early Mars had the chemistry needed for life

A Purdue University-led study of rocks on Mars is giving scientists a new look at whether the red planet once had the right chemical conditions for life.

04-21-2026

‘Bathtub ring’ offers new evidence for Mars ocean billions of years ago

CNN — Mars may have once had an ocean so vast that it covered one-third of the planet before evaporating billions of years ago and leaving behind a telltale sign: a flat band of land, outlining the former ocean — similar to the ring left behind in a drained bathtub. EAPS's Briony Horgan was quoted in the article.