A&A senior Grace Pardini makes the list!

Professor Emeritus Reiner Decher chronicles his family history as part of a post-WWII technological migration.

Professors Shumlak and Srinivasan and Ph.D.

CNN quotes Professor Bhuvana Srinivasan on the promise of nuclear fusion for space travel. 

Our plasma science professors call to protect vital funding for national and economic security.

PhD student's research on holistic aircraft control systems earns prestigious fellowship for advancing aviation

NSF funds eye-tracking research to help us create autonomous systems that can adjust to individual comfort level

A&A endowments fund technical communication course NSF fellowship workshop.

Skye Mceowen wins AIAA award for auto-tuning algorithm, applied to hypersonic reentry, boosting spaceflight and

A&A alumna and board member Laura McGill has been named the next director of Sandia National Labs.

ESS Assistant Professor and astrobiologist Joshua Krissansen-Totton is quoted.

From volcanic hazards to planetary science, the 2025 Earth & Space Sciences Research Gala celebrated the innovative work and inspiring stories of UW ESS […]

ESS professor Harold Tobin was selected as one of six distinguished lecturers for the Ocean Discovery Lecture Series during the 2024-2025 academic year.

Several UW College of the Environment programs, including disciplines in the Department of Earth & Space Sciences, placed highly in two recent […]

ESS Professor and Pacific Northwest Seismic Network Director Harold Tobin is interviewed.

As NASA's Europa Clipper embarks on its 5.5-year journey to Europa, a new study in Nature Communications by University of Washington planetary scientist […]

A 4.5 magnitude earthquake jolted awake many residents of the San Juan Islands early on March 3. The quake caused no major damage and did not set off a tsunami […]

Harold Tobin, ESS professor and Washington State seismologist is quoted.

ESS assistant research professor and planetary scientist Baptiste Journaux is quoted.

ESS alum and polar glaciologist Peter Neff and team drill ice cores near the Thwaites Glacier that could provide a clearer picture of the history of weather […]

The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic neighbor to the Milky Way. The new […]

NASA has awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant to establish a regional scientific consortium based at the University of Washington, in partnership with […]

Researchers think meltwater beneath Martian ice could host microbial life. New results show that dusty ice could allow deeper layers to melt, while allowing […]

An international team including a UW scientist found that the water on one of Saturn’s moons harbors phosphates, a key building block of life. The team used […]

Scientists suspect that the red streaks crossing the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is a frozen mixture of water and salts, but its chemical signature […]

A planetary scientist worked with engineers to measure the physical limits of a liquid for salty water under high pressure. Results suggest where robotic […]

After years of preparation, a tiny satellite built by UW students is scheduled to launch early Saturday, Nov. 2, from a NASA flight facility in Virginia. The […]

A new model for plasma flow within the sun provides novel explanations for sunspots, the 11-year sunspot cycle, solar magnetic reversals and other previously […]