ESSIC is a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that supports research, teaching and career training in Earth system science.

Endowed professorship in virtual reality created with private and state support.

Thick clouds of methane forced hydrogen to leave the atmosphere, enabling today’s oxygen-rich air to develop.

Technique to standardize sugar groups could lead to better quality control, customization.

Researchers forge a new state of matter using atoms and lasers.

Zhou’s research experiences at UMD led to a presentation at one of the largest physician conferences in the world.

Series of high-altitude balloon missions and upcoming space mission tackle enduring questions of physics.

Temperature swings of black hole winds measured for the first time.

New research suggests that plate tectonics began later in Earth’s history.

Researchers determine that a protein required for sperm-egg fusion is identical to a protein viruses use to invade host cells; discovery could help fight parasitic diseases like malaria.