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Triangulum Galaxy shows stunning face in detailed Hubble portrait
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced a stunningly detailed portrait of the Triangulum Galaxy, displaying a full spiral face aglow.
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At the UW, our sci-fi future has arrived
Science fiction has come alive in our modern world. Current projects at the UW show that some literary fantasies will soon be reality.
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Searching for Life in the Great Beyond
Wondering if we've got neighbors? UW astrobiologists are looking for signs of life elsewhere in the Universe.
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Fascinating! Astronomers spot super-Earth orbiting Mr. Spock’s fictional home star
Assistant Research Professor Rory Barnes' published paper is cited in a recent article about fictional Star Trek Planet Vulcan.
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Our Neighbor Andromeda May Have Cannibalized Another Galaxy
UW Astronomy assistant professor Sarah Tuttle is quoted.
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Scientists At NASA’s Nexus For Exoplanet System Science Evaluate How To Distinguish Life On Other Planets
University of Washington astronomer Victoria Meadows is quoted.
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Meteorite search off the Washington coast recovers two small fragments
University of Washington astronomy professor Don Brownlee, a meteorite and comet recovery and research expert was consulted for this mission.
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Summer Solstice 2018: The Search for Life in the Galaxy
Rory Barnes, assistant professor at the University of Washington Department of Astronomy is quoted.
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Orbital variations can trigger ‘snowball’ states in habitable zones around sunlike stars
New research from astronomers at UW shows that large obliquity variations in a planet in the "habitable zone" will increase the likelihood for a frozen surface.
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Circumbinary castaways: Short-period binary systems can eject orbiting worlds
New research from the UW Department of Astronomy helps to explain why astronomers have detected few circumbinary planets.
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A lunar wonder … or a washout? Your guide to the super blue blood moon eclipse
Geographically speaking, the Pacific Northwest is one of the best places in America to see tonight’s super-hyped total lunar eclipse. Meteorologically speaking? Not so much.
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Moonless in Seattle? Feast your eyes on global views of the total lunar eclipse
Skywatchers from Vancouver to Siberia shared their images of the total lunar eclipse. Julie Lutz, a UW astronomer, is quoted.
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Alien megastructure? Forget about it, weird star’s discoverers say after further study
The astronomers have fully ruled out that an alien megastructure might be responsible for the weirdly fluctuating light from a distant star.
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Space dust, not aliens: Two UW astronomers assist in new research on ‘mysterious’ star
KIC 8462852 is nicknamed “Tabby’s Star” after LSU astronomer Boyajian, who discovered it with the help of citizen scientists. UW astronomers co-authored.
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Piercing the mystery of the cosmic origins of gold
Explore the origins of cosmic gold, written by Jérôme Margueron, a visiting scientist at the UW's Institute for Nuclear Theory.