From GPS-free drone navigation to lunar tunnel radar, our senior design teams delivered. Meet the winners.

We proudly honor the 2026 awardees of our Student Excellence and Distinguished Faculty and Staff awards!

Laila Elias named 2026 A&A Distinguished Alum.

One year after a humbling 51st-place finish, DBF returned to the annual AIAA competition with a new philosophy.<

Kuang-Ying "Eddie" Ting spends his time in our UWAL wind tunnels figuring out how to keep wings under control.

A&A’s Plasmawise Lab is selected for the first round of awards under Helion Energy's new university research

Joe Armas (A&A ‘98) has spent the last 20 years solving aerospace engineering problems at Otis Elevator.

Varanasi Fellow Kevin Manohar upsamples the hidden physics of turbulent flight.

Researchers create computational and physical models of the Moon to test harvesting power from magnetic anomalie

A&A is leading the development of nuclear fusion, harnessing the power of a manufactured miniature sun.

Moons get no respect. People think of them as dead and cold, often overshadowed (literally) by the superstar planets they orbit around. But planetary scientist […]

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) installed seismic sensors designed to record the ground shaking throughout Seattle Stadium, as Seattle hosts […]

The UW Department of Earth & Space Sciences Research Symposium and Gala is an annual graduate student-organized event that brings together students, […]

PNSN Director and ESS Professor Harold Tobin is quoted.

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, housed within the UW Department of Earth and Space Sciences, is once again using its earthquake-sensing equipment to […]

Tectonic stress has reached peak levels in key areas near Los Angeles. PNSN Director Harold Tobin is interviewed.

When the opportunity arose to work with 5 million-year-old ice from Antarctica, Hailey Smith jumped at the chance. Smith, a fourth-year ESS undergraduate […]

UW research scientist Mira Berdahl, along with ESS Professors Eric Steig and Gerard Roe, helped develop a modeling approach showing that the glacier retreat […]

Scientists are now warning that scaling back the Ocean Observations Initiative could put Washington and Oregon at risk. However, the cable system managed by […]

PNSN has been hard at work expanding the ShakeAlert seismic monitoring network since the Washington/Oregon launch in 2021. Now, with all planned […]

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 […]