Welcome

Welcome to the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA. Our mission is to understand and protect our home in the universe through discovery, education, and outreach. To further this mission we strive to foster an inclusive culture of respect, collaboration, and openness to new ideas and methodologies.

Seminar of the Day

EPSS Colloquium
Tuesday Oct 15 3:30p.m. - 4:30p.m.
Presented By:
Ranga Ram Chary - Executive Director, UCLA Space Institute

The Universe is 13.8 billion years old. Within a few 100 million years of the beginning of time, the first galaxies formed, which radiated the Universe with a sea of ultraviolet photons and triggered the transition of the Universe from a neutral medium to an ionized medium. For decades, we …