Mark Dunn’s simulations capture non-equilibrium effects previous plasma models missed.

Condit Fellow Spencer Kraisler resurfaces old math papers to speed up control theory.

Samuel Buckner's work on perception-aware rocket guidance wins the 2026 Best GNC Paper Award.

The UW Office of Research's new program helps faculty researchers engage and inspire the public about the benefi

The fellowship recognizes Remy's work in the CTRL Lab on making autonomous systems safer and more socially aware

A&A capstone team boosts strake efficiency, potentially saving airlines hundreds of kilograms of fuel per fl

Congress passes $10 million in federal funding for UW infrastructure, including $3 million for new fan blades fo

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.

NPR's Short Wave podcast interviewed ESS Associate Professor Marine Denolle about the Cascadia fault and earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.

Two University of Washington alumna have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows are Dr. Annie Bauer […]

The segment on KIRO7 featured ESS Profs. David Catling and Dale Winebrenner, and graduate student Danqiu Chen, and their research about conditions for life […]

The anniversary of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake was marked on Thursday, 2/26 by discussing ongoing contingency plans for another powerful quake. ESS Professor […]

The Greenland Roundtable, hosted by the UW Center for Canadian & Arctic Studies, brought together experts to explore the ongoing emergency from Inuit, […]

A new University of Washington study examining 13 years of ground motion data from sites near the Cascadia Subduction Zone shows that the entirety of the fault […]

A new study led by ESS graduate student and planetary scientist Trent Thomas finds intensified seafloor weathering was the decisive factor that allowed one […]

David Catling has been named interim director of the UW Astrobiology Program, an interdisciplinary group that spans four UW colleges, including the College of […]

UW glaciologist and ESS Professor Eric Steig was interviewed on the February 15th CBS Sunday Morning show. In the segment, "These United States: George […]

The College of the Environment has launched the Paros Geohazards Center, establishing a world-class center of research excellence to understand and mitigate […]

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 […]