Robert Hazen

Robert Hazen is a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Geophysical Laboratory and professor of earth science at George Mason University. His latest book is The Story of Earth (2012).

Written by Robert Hazen

Digital artwork showing Earth from the surface of the Moon with a distant sun in the background and a starry sky.

ideaAstronomy

In space, there really might be no place like home

Robert Hazen

Red, yellow, blue and gold wavy lines of a banded rock formation creating a textured, layered pattern resembling abstract artwork.

essayBiology

Mineral fodder

We may think we are the first organisms to remake the planet, but life has been transforming the earth for aeons

Robert Hazen