Assistant Professor Martin Nisser's student team makes advanced wireframe fabrication accessible at very low cos

Professor Morgansen helped set up the Student Seagliding Center.

Usha and Rao Varanasi’s new faculty fellowship names Professor Salviato as the first recipient.

Professor Srinivasan talks about the promise of fusion in this feature covering the local industry, including A&

Professor Srinivasan interviewed on fusion's core challenges and why she believes we'll solve them.

Students designed and built SOC-i, a shoebox-sized satellite now orbiting Earth after NASA selection.

Undergraduate Lian wins AIAA Region VI award for spectroscopic analysis of erosion on the ZaP-HD device.

UW will lead propulsion research in a new $35M Space Force institute developing nuclear-powered spacecraft.

Q&A with Professor Hermanson on his ride of a lifetime with the Blue Angels.

This award will support building autonomous systems with enhanced human-like social skills. 

More than a decade ago, data from the Cassini mission to Saturn suggested that the planet’s largest moon, Titan, had a vast ocean of liquid water below its […]

ESS Assistant Professor Brad Lipovsky is quoted.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ended funding for nine seismic stations, mainly in the seismically active Aleutian Islands, creating […]

In late August at Burley Mountain, a team from the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network installed equipment to detect ground movement. This seismic station joined […]

The College of the Environment's Program on Climate Change (PCC) is hosting a free, interdisciplinary colloquium each month this academic year. ESS Professor […]

“The Memory of Darkness, Light and Ice” — a documentary film featuring Eric Steig, a UW professor of Earth and space sciences — tells the story of a […]

ESS Teaching Professor Terry Swanson has taught ESS 101 Introduction to Geology and Societal Impacts, or "Rocks for Jocks" for 34 years, reaching over 50,000 […]

Harold Tobin, ESS professor and PNSN director, is quoted.

ESS alumna and Indiana University Bloomington Assistant Professor Dr. Julia Kelson was awarded the Geological Society of America’s 2025 Young Scientist […]

ESS Assistant Professor Dr. Baptiste Journaux was recognized this past summer with the International Association for the Properties of Water & Steam’s […]

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 […]