James Wray

James Wray

Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Wray is a planetary scientist who joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2011. His research uses space mission data to study planetary surface processes and compositions. He has been a member of six different NASA or ESA Mars mission science teams, and previously served as Chair of the Geological Society of America's Planetary Geology Division.

Latest articles by James Wray

a comet streaks the sky above a dark forest seen through empty windows high up

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud − the invisible bubble that's home to countless space objects

By James Wray published

The cloud is basically a gigantic reservoir that may hold billions of icy celestial bodies. Two of those bodies will pass by Earth in the days leading up to Halloween.

Comets