News

4.14.25

Inspired by nature: the messy meandering

The Source

4.8.25

Once in a thousand years? Extreme storms are becoming much more frequent

Earth.com

4.7.25

2025 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures will discuss breakthroughs in understanding supermassive black holes

4.7.25

JWST’s next year of amazing science revealed—as funding worries loom large

Scientific American

4.4.25

What makes a 1-in-1000-year storm, really?

The Source

4.4.25

Scientists may have just found the driving force behind Venus' volcanos

Space.com

4.3.25

A nebula’s X-ray glow may come from a destroyed giant planet

Science News

4.1.25

Venus: Could Surprising 'Missing Mechanism' Explain Volcanic Mystery?

Newsweek

3.27.25

Rare meteorites provide a window into the early solar system

Earth.com

3.25.25

Could convection in the crust explain Venus’s many volcanoes?

3.19.25

Unlocking space science: the Analyst's Notebook and its legacy at WashU

3.13.25

Errando and Konecky have been promoted

3.10.25

Earth’s rocks hold whiffs of air from billions of years ago

Science

3.6.25

Unveiling cosmic mysteries: The TIGERISS mission prepares for liftoff

Science Magazine

3.4.25

EEPS Research Roundup February 2025

2.27.25

Undergraduate Research: opening doors, sparking new ideas, and shaping the next generation of physicists

2.26.25

WashU-led astrophysics mission lands its spot on space station

2.18.25

High-Flying Science: How and Why We Sent a Refrigerator Halfway to Space

2.13.25

New complexity emerges in Earth’s ‘boring’ middle region

2.12.25

Graduate Student Chun Huang discusses new neutron star radius measurement method with AAS

2.11.25

Understanding the workings of the vast universe and taking science beyond Earth

2.10.25

Exploring Venus may require exotic tech like balloons and 'aerobots'

2.5.25

Pioneering lunar scientist awarded emeritus status

1.28.25

‘Up and Atom!’: Witness this month’s planetary parade at Crow Observatory

1.9.25

Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss

1.6.25

Returning to his roots: Joe Guinness, AB ’07, helps grow a new department

12.19.24

NASA’s Juno Mission Uncovers Heart of Jovian Moon’s Volcanic Rage

12.18.24

Bhupal Dev awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship

12.17.24

Wash U Astrophysicist says advancements from space station research are 'hard to grasp'

12.17.24

Geology team evaluates lunar landing locations

12.6.24

Bridges to the Moon

12.2.24

Perseverance Rover hunts rare earth elements on Mars

11.25.24

What is the solar maximum?

11.21.24

What makes an exoplanet a sub-Neptune?

11.21.24

Washington University Physics Research Symposium (WUPRS) Celebrates Sixth Year of Collaboration and Innovation

11.18.24

NASA Provides Update on Artemis III Moon Landing Regions

11.18.24

A high-tech way to track an age-old problem

11.13.24

Fire & Ice

11.12.24

NASA mission will determine if a moon of Jupiter can sustain life

11.1.24

Solar System: volcano worlds

10.21.24

Postdoctoral Fellowship Opening

10.17.24

WashU professor talks about New Madrid seismic zone

10.16.24

NASA balloons study atmosphere and cosmos

10.16.24

EEPS Research Roundup: 2023 - 2024

10.15.24

Europa Clipper launch was 'mind-bogglingly intense' says Wash U Professor

10.14.24

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launches

10.7.24

Europa is an icy ocean world—and NASA is finally going to explore it

10.2.24

Lucy in the Sky with Asteroids: 2024 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures

9.30.24

Using drone imagery to help the slow loris

9.24.24

WashU-led team launches space mission with quantum sensor technology

9.23.24

APS Dissertation Award

9.19.24

NASA’s Europa Clipper prepares for launch

9.13.24

Recognizing outstanding faculty and staff

9.12.24

A giant hole in Siberia is visible from space and growing rapidly. It might reveal hints about our planet's future

9.6.24

Empowering voices: highlights from a recent conference

9.5.24

Welcome to MCSS: Karthik Ramanathan

9.4.24

Field Notes: South Pacific

9.3.24

Deciphering the mysteries of planetary formation

8.30.24

Hunting meteorites in Antarctica (with Scott VanBommel)

8.22.24

Can We Burn Uranus? Dead Planets Society Podcast

8.17.24

Is Mercury retrograde messing with you? Think again.

8.15.24

Shooting for the Moon

8.13.24

NASA’s Perseverance Rover uncovers rock with features that may indicate Mars hosted life

8.13.24

Perseid meteor shower hits its peak

8.7.24

Ancient grains of dust from space can be found on Earth − and provide clues about the life cycle of stars

8.6.24

Chang'e 6 brought rocks from the far side of the Moon back to Earth − a planetary scientist explains what this sample could hold

7.30.24

MCSS Newsletter - Summer 2024

7.30.24

WRANGL3R: Rover-mounted drill sensor for water resource survey on the Moon

7.29.24

Best minds in space exploration converge on St. Louis as Washington University helps fuel Artemis 3 moon mission

7.29.24

The discovery of native sulfur on Mars

7.25.24

McDonnell Center Postdoc Andrea Gokus has won a Fermi grant

7.22.24

From Apollo to Artemis: unlocking the Moon's secrets

7.19.24

Active volcanoes may be common on Venus

7.15.24

Exploring unseen forces shaping the universe

7.11.24

Balloon mission measures X-rays en route from Arctic Sweden to northern Canada

7.9.24

XL-Calibur telescope launched to study black holes

7.1.24

Moon ‘swirls’ could be magnetized by unseen magmas

6.27.24

Surprising phosphate finding in asteroid sample

6.25.24

China Makes History with First-Ever Samples from the Moon’s Far Side

6.22.24

Scorching temperatures persist as heat wave expands, with record-breaking temperatures expected across U.S.

6.21.24

Nowak named Associate Director of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences

6.1.24

What does a meteorite taste like? Someone found out and bottled it.

6.19.24

Breaking the cold barrier: searching for the nature of dark matter with new dilution refrigerator

6.17.24

Uncovering new worlds with Professor Tansu Daylan

6.11.24

We could float effortlessly in Pluto's subsurface ocean

6.10.24

Venus UnXplained

6.5.24

Collado named an Astronaut Scholar

6.5.24

Rivers of lava on Venus reveal a more volcanically active planet

6.4.24

Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is growing

5.30.24

Pluto Has an Ocean of Liquid Water Surrounded by a 40-80 km Ice Shell

5.29.24

WashU theorists help advance nuclear physics research at DOE facility

5.29.24

Venus Might Still Have Active Volcanoes, as Recent Lava Flows Suggest ‘Ongoing’ Eruptions

5.23.24

XL-Calibur telescope set for balloon flight from Arctic Circle

5.15.24

Peering into Pluto's ocean

5.9.24

Astronomy conference travel is on par with Africa’s per-capita carbon footprint

5.9.24

Okawa selected for URA fellowship at Fermilab

5.8.24

China's Chang'e-6 launches successfully — what happens next?

5.8.24

Bethany Ehlmann to receive honorary degree at WashU’s 163rd Commencement

5.6.24

Mars may have been more Earth-like than we thought, discovery of oxygen-rich rocks reveals

5.1.24

Harte, Ehlmann to address undergraduate Class of 2024

5.1.24

Physics student Brodie selected for prestigious DOE program

4.30.24

Astronomers share climate-friendly meeting solutions

4.30.24

Saturn’s moon Mimas may be hiding a vast global ocean under its ice

4.29.24

Our picture of habitability on Europa, a top contender for hosting life, is changing

4.26.24

Antarctic ice shelf the size of France suddenly JUMPS twice a day - and scientists warn it could trigger a devastating icequake

4.25.24

Venus Exploration Remains Key To Understanding Exo-Earths, Says Paper

4.25.24

Recognizing graduate student excellence in research, teaching

4.24.24

TGI-funded Project Uses Geospatial Tech to Study Permafrost, Plants, and Wildfire

4.23.24

WashU alum leads a recently deployed NASA mission to detect gamma-rays from cosmic explosions

4.23.24

Celebrating faculty retirements

4.22.24

Interplanetary rockstar

4.18.24

NASA’s Artemis astronauts will help grow crops on the Moon—and much more

4.18.24

Our Galaxy’s biggest black hole just got a new close-up

4.18.24

Unlocking the secrets of the Universe

4.17.24

WashU to manage data for instrument on Artemis moon mission

4.15.24

The View From Here 04.15.24

4.11.24

“It was surreal” — WashU students, staff, and faculty view eclipse

4.11.24

WashU Expert: Tremor a reminder that East Coast, Midwest earthquake threat is real

4.11.24

Finding the Story in the Stones

4.10.24

An Ice Body the Size of France Is Mysteriously Shifting Every Day. No One Knows Why.

4.10.24

‘Light waves’ danced just before eclipse in Missouri. Scientists had waited years for them.

4.8.24

Solar eclipse plunges Illinois and Missouri into darkness as the celestial spectacle dazzles

4.8.24

What will St. Louis see during Monday’s solar eclipse?

4.5.24

Does Jupiter’s moon Europa have a habitable ocean, or not?

4.5.24

Masteller wins NSF CAREER award

4.4.24

St. Louis scientists nab $3 million to further moon exploration research

4.1.24

Jupiter’s ocean moon may be dead inside

4.1.24

WashU Scientists Plan for Trip South of St. Louis to View the Total Solar Eclipse at Public Event

3.29.24

Pacific rock samples offer a glimpse of an active Earth 2.5 billion years ago

3.29.24

Largest ice shelf in Antarctica lurches forward once or twice each day

3.28.24

NASA grant helps WashU scientists develop tech for lunar research

3.28.24

Cosmochemistry: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?

3.26.24

Dr. Daylan teaches how exoplanets are discovered and characterized

3.26.24

Piarulli promoted with tenure

3.21.24

Opinion: Mars rocks are a science prize the U.S. can’t afford to lose

3.18.24

Roger Michaelides wins NASA fellowship for early-career researchers

3.15.24

Krawczynski installed as Wilfred R. and Ann Lee Konneker Distinguished Professor of Physics

3.13.24

With NASA support, device for future lunar mission being developed at WashU

3.7.24

NASA and Russian satellites just miss in ‘too close for comfort’ pass

3.6.24

Finding new physics in debris from colliding neutron stars

3.6.24

Parai and Byrne granted tenure

3.5.24

2024 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures will discuss supermassive black holes

3.5.24

The “Nested Doll” Nucleus Nitrogen-9 Stretches the Definition of a Nucleus to the Limit

2.29.24

Dr. Ferrer explains the eclipse that made Einstein famous

2.29.24

Still need eclipse plans? You can see it from the sky on this Southwest flight

2.26.24

Master Minds Podcast interviews Professor Mark Alford

2.26.24

Saturday Scholars

2.20.24

Paper selected for the MAS Macres Award

2.15.24

The ties that bind

2.15.24

How solar eclipses have shaped civilizations throughout history

2.14.24

Fallon awarded the Baines Family Planetary Science Scholarship

2.8.24

Get your eclipse fix during Saturday Science events

2.8.24

Paul Byrne elected to the 2024 class of The Explorer's Club

1.30.24

SuperTIGER Rescue Rangers return to the ice

1.26.24

It's been a 'wild' ride for the comet sampled by NASA's Stardust mission

1.22.24

Searching for dark matter

1.22.24

Eighteen Years After Stardust Mission, the Solar System’s wild past becomes clearer

1.19.24

Geospatial Research Initiative Announces Seed Grant Funding

1.18.24

Scientists and space agencies are shooting for the Moon – 5 essential reads on modern lunar missions

1.16.24

Good turnout at the Graduate School and REU Fair

1.11.24

Samples from a Wild comet reveal a surprising past

1.11.24

2023 was the second-warmest year on record in St. Louis. Here’s what that means

1.4.24

Steve Fossett Postdoctoral Fellowship

12.13.23

ExoCup@WashU

12.11.23

Should we send humans to Venus?

12.8.23

Fall 2023 Student Awards

12.7.23

Asteroid Bennu samples have arrived on campus for analysis

12.5.23

Preparing for a Leap

12.4.23

Rare Six-Planet Star System Discovered in Milky Way

11.30.23

Growers say droughts damaged real Christmas trees

11.30.23

Separating out signals recorded at the seafloor

11.30.23

Could 2023 be the hottest year on record? The outlook for climate tipping points and catastrophes

11.17.23

Can a private space mission pierce Venus's clouds?

11.15.23

Teraelectronvolt Astrophysics of Relativistic Jets

11.13.23

Trick-or-treating at Venus

11.8.23

Undergraduate Research Symposium - Fall 2023

11.8.23

Lead Scientist of Mars Sample Return Program Gives Lecture on Bringing Mars to Earth

11.3.23

Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures

10.31.23

Bradley Jolliff: “We’ll develop the surface science plan for the Artemis III mission“

10.30.23

Strong evidence found for new light isotope of nitrogen

10.27.23

New global topographic map unveils unique distortions on Enceladus

10.20.23

Asteroid analyses by WashU researchers featured on journal cover

10.20.23

Graduate students recognized for research excellence

10.20.23

Samples from asteroid Bennu contain the key ingredients of life

10.12.23

Exploring stellar hydrogen burning via muons and nuclei

10.12.23

NASA's Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid. Here's why

10.4.23

Postdoctoral Quantum Monte Carlo Group Fellowship Opening

10.4.23

The story of Earth's atmosphere

10.3.23

2023 Walker Distinguished Lectures will discuss bringing Mars samples back to Earth

10.2.23

Io is a Volcanic hellscape of fire and ice: Let's go explore it

9.29.23

in:SPACE Influencer Paul Byrne

9.29.23

Tyson observatory is WashU’s dark sky site

9.28.23

Is it possible to turn Venus from boiling hellscape to liveable world?

9.27.23

From Missouri to Mars: WashU alum engineers career in space research

9.26.23

Hunting supermassive black holes in the early Universe

9.22.23

Chandrayaan-3’s measurements of sulfur open the doors for lunar science and exploration

9.18.23

Chen and Yuan win NSF grant to simulate pulsars at WashU

9.18.23

Introducing the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

9.14.23

Flashes in Venus’ atmosphere might be meteors, not lightning

9.13.23

Physicist Yuan joins Simons collaboration on extreme electrodynamics

9.7.23

In 15 Years, We Might Put Messi On The Moon — But Should We?

9.3.23

Pacific Puzzles: How El Niño and La Niña Are Changing Their Dance

9.1.23

NASA selects geology team for the first crewed Artemis landing

9.1.23

New Center for the Environment begins work

9.1.23

Environmental Science: It’s a Summer of Record-Breaking Heat With More Dangerously Hot Summers Ahead From Global Warming

8.31.23

Professor Ray Arvidson granted Earth Science in United States Leader Award

8.30.23

Ogliore and Wang selected as members of the Mars Sample Return Measurement Definition Team

8.29.23

NASA partnership is 'a jewel in WashU's crown'

8.28.23

Jolliff selected for geology team for lunar landing mission

8.27.23

St. Louis scientists say brown carbon from wildfires is more dangerous than they thought

8.23.23

Study: Atmospheric circulation weakens following volcanic eruptions

8.21.23

Scientists find possible evidence of ancient giant volcano on the moon

8.21.23

Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics

8.15.23

Right now 2 nations are racing to the moon to land at the south pole

8.11.23

Is it possible to kill the sun?

8.11.23

The Source: McKinnon wins 2023 Kuiper Prize

8.2.23

Russia’s return to the Moon with Luna-25

7.27.23

4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters

7.24.23

Sohee Chun wins NASA FINESST grant

7.24.23

Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) science team

7.20.23

Granite likely lurks beneath the moon’s surface

7.19.23

XL-Calibur telescope to fly again in 2024

7.13.23

Scientists Have Found a Hot Spot on the Moon’s Far Side

7.11.23

Chen has joined the tenure track

7.11.23

Arvidson wins fourth public service award from NASA

7.7.23

Roving with Perseverance

6.26.23

Radar can help fight wildfires, identify flash-flood risks

6.7.23

Ogliore promoted with tenure

5.30.23

Is Earth the only planet with lightning?

5.21.23

Flooding and Erosion from Climate Change, Shifting Rivers and Changing Landscapes

5.5.23

Nicole Rodriguez Cavero's project approved for funding by the John Templeton Foundation

5.4.23

McKinnon elected to National Academy of Sciences

5.3.23

Squeezing rocks for science

5.2.23

Professor William B. McKinnon elected to the National Academy of Sciences

4.26.23

TRIADS announces recipients of seed grant funding

4.19.23

Physicist Daylan selected for NASA open-science effort

4.17.23

Jolliff shares next steps in returning people to the Moon

4.4.23

Volcanoes on Venus … Wow! New map here

3.30.23

NASA’s Uranus Mission Is Running Out of Time

3.29.23

Scientists share ‘comprehensive’ map of volcanoes on Venus — all 85,000 of them

3.27.23

2023 Graduate Student Appreciation Week

3.22.23

Michaelides wins seed grant to study interplay of permafrost, vegetation, and wildfire

3.17.23

Scientists Spot Recent Volcanic Activity on Venus

3.15.23

Venus is volcanically alive, stunning new find shows

3.13.23

Midwest Climate Summit allows student volunteers to learn from climate leaders

3.9.23

Everything you want to know about spy balloons, or any balloon, in the sky

2.23.23

McDonnell lectures to offer a crash course in the creation of the Earth and Moon

2.23.23

Celebrating 170 years: an Apollo 17 connection

2.16.23

Study quantifies global impact of electricity in dust storms on Mars

2.6.23

Washington University scientists to probe space for origins of matter

1.30.23

Does This Mineral Indicate Oxygen on Mars?

1.18.23

2023 predictions from Mike Nowak

1.10.23

WashU Expert: 2023 will be the year of the battery

12.22.22

Formation of manganese oxides on early Mars

12.21.22

Spider launches from Antarctica

12.7.22

Science research roundup: November and December 2022

12.6.22

The solar system's strangest objects are unlocking its history

12.6.22

Back to Antarctica with SPIDER

11.29.22

Physicists awarded DOE supercomputing time for ‘high-impact’ projects

11.23.22

Physicist Errando helps NASA solve black hole jet mystery

11.21.22

Fall 2022 Earth and Planetary Sciences Alumni Newsletter

11.18.22

Artemis launch returns U.S. to the moon - Jolliff interview on PRI/The World

11.17.22

McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

11.14.22

Postdoctoral Fellowship Opening

11.9.22

Planetary sciences alumni return for Walker Distinguished Lectures

11.3.22

Polarized X-rays reveal shape, orientation of extremely hot matter around black hole

10.21.22

Scientific ballooning is not for the faint of heart

10.16.22

Mars Investigator Celebrates His 50-Year Career Exploring Mars

11.1.22

The power of persistence

10.12.22

Venus balloon prototype aces test flights

10.11.22

New offerings for undergraduates in Earth and planetary sciences

9.28.22

Science research roundup: September 2022

9.27.22

Fike installed as the Glassberg/Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor

9.25.22

Studying how climate change shapes floods and river landscapes

9.22.22

Postdoctoral Quantum Monte Carlo Group fellowship Opening

9.14.22

Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics

9.14.22

Cosmochemist Wang to study samples from asteroid Bennu

9.2.22

Washington University in St. Louis Celebrates Raymond E. Arvidson’s 50 Years of Mars Exploration

9.1.22

Space Station Experiment To Probe Origins of Elements

8.31.22

Exploring Mars, 50 years and counting

8.30.22

TIGERISS roars toward space station spot

8.26.22

Boundless

8.26.22

WashU Expert: Artemis launch brings us closer to space exploration goals

8.23.22

2022 Newsletter

8.17.22

Science research roundup: July and August 2022

8.12.22

NASA Has Plans to Probe Uranus

8.11.22

Earth’s Lower Mantle Is Drier Than Previously Thought

8.9.22

How balloons could one day detect quakes on Venus

7.29.22

Ogliore discusses Webb telescope images

7.27.22

Historic rainfall in St. Louis raises questions about flooding and climate change

7.12.22

NASA releases Webb telescope photos, deepest space photos in history

7.11.22

Earth's deep mantle was drier from the start

6.30.22

New leadership for physics department

6.29.22

Science research roundup: June 2022

6.24.22

Geoscientists to study structure and properties of Antarctic lithosphere

6.22.22

Ancient micrometeoroids carried specks of stardust, water to asteroid 4 Vesta

6.21.22

Guts and stardust

6.17.22

Distance learning: Planetary scientist Paul Byrne explains why you should be impressed by the James Webb Space Telescope

6.9.22

Asteroid samples offer chance to study chemically pristine solar system materials

6.1.22

Taste of Science returns to in-person outreach

6.1.22

Science research roundup: May 2022

5.27.22

Shooting for the Moon! The next step is with Artemis Missions

5.24.22

Dark energy, cosmic mile markers, and the surprising expansion of the universe

5.11.22

Asteroid samples offer insights into solar system evolution

5.6.22

Undergraduate research presentations and senior awards ceremony

4.27.22

Science research roundup: April 2022

4.27.22

Novel particle detector used to study alternate path to carbon creation in stars

4.25.22

Unique samples or just super weird?

4.25.22

Dev to study mysterious particles at Fermilab

4.7.22

Lorenzo Andreoli selected for URA Visiting Scholars Program

4.6.22

March 2022 e-newsletter available now

4.6.22

NASA waited 50 years to unseal these precious moon rocks

4.6.22

NASA studies ‘new’ 50-year-old lunar sample to prep for return to Moon

3.23.22

Konecky launches new program to support diversity in the geosciences

3.23.22

Arts & Sciences faculty win NSF CAREER Awards

3.9.22

Krawczynski promoted to associate professor

3.7.22

Pastore Promoted

3.4.22

WashU scientists help recover gases from Moon rock time capsule

3.1.22

Nature: Ukraine conflict jeopardizes launch of Europe’s first Mars rover

2.28.22

Seismic study reveals key reason why Patagonia is rising as glaciers melt

2.22.22

Science research roundup: February 2022

2.18.22

UPI: Perseverance rover’s second year on Mars to focus on rock samples, river delta

2.16.22

Parai wins CAREER grant to study geochemistry of the deep Earth

2.16.22

The challenge of our century

2.9.22

Slow and not so steady: Glaciers, ice sheets, and sea level rise (video)

2.8.22

Experiencing architecture in augmented reality

2.4.22

Arvidson receives award from St. Louis Astronomical Society

1.26.22

Conference roundup: AGU 2021

1.20.22

Master Minds: Mission to Mars, Venus and the Moon

1.11.22

A lasting impact on WashU seismology

1.11.22

Volatile bodies: Isotopic fingerprints reveal how planets gain and lose elements

1.7.22

Scientists detect world’s lightest magnesium

12.25.21

BBC News: Paul Byrne on launch of James Webb Space Telescope (video)

BBC News

12.20.21

Vacuum-Sealed Container From 1972 Moon Landing Will Finally Be Opened

12.10.21

Expanding the X-ray view of the universe

12.10.21

UPI: NASA's eventual farewell to tiny Mars helicopter could be emotional

12.9.21

Manel Errando received a subaward from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

12.9.21

Sachiko Amari won a $973,810 award from NASA

12.8.21

Inverse: Chinese rover spots a "Moon cube," and opens a new lunar mystery

12.8.21

Science research roundup: November and December 2021

12.6.21

A river runs through it

12.5.21

Space.com: Strange 'eggshell' exoplanets may have ultra-smooth surfaces

12.1.21

Nowak wins grants from NASA, Smithsonian observatory

11.19.21

McDonnell Center lecture on sampling the solar system

11.19.21

Buckley earns grant for astronomical monitoring

11.17.21

SyFy: Bizarre, brittle exoplanets could feel like walking on eggshells

11.15.21

ScienceAlert: These strange, brittle 'eggshell' exoplanets could be orbiting alien stars

11.14.21

New York Times: A missing piece of the Moon may be following Earth around the Sun

11.10.21

Tread lightly: ‘Eggshell planets’ possible around other stars

11.9.21

NPR: In Jupiter's swirling Great Red Spot, NASA spacecraft finds hidden depths

11.2.21

New program offers undergraduate research experiences in rock deformation

10.27.21

Science research roundup: October 2021

10.25.21

National Geographic: Deepest earthquake ever detected struck 467 miles beneath Japan

10.21.21

Business Insider: China brought Moon samples from ancient volcanic eruptions

10.18.21

Hands-on learning to help the planet

10.16.21

Forbes: ESA’s BepiColombo orbiters fire up instruments on first Mercury flyby

10.12.21

Stellar fossils in meteorites point to distant stars

10.8.21

Space.com: Moon rocks brought to Earth by Chinese mission fill key gaps in solar system history

10.7.21

Chang’e-5 samples reveal key age of moon rocks

10.6.21

National Geographic: Hellish Venus poses many mysteries. New spacecraft aim to solve them.

10.6.21

St. Louis Public Radio: Wash U scientists to continue Mars research with $11.8 million NASA contract renewal

9.23.21

Science research roundup: September 2021

9.22.21

$11.8 million award renews planetary geosciences data effort

9.22.21

NPR: Mars had liquid water on its surface. Here's why scientists think it vanished.

9.22.21

Forbes: Martian blues: Did planet's size affect its ability to hold onto water?

9.21.21

Time: Mars was always destined to die

9.20.21

Mars habitability limited by its small size, isotope study suggests

9.16.21

Faculty Search: Assistant Professor in Astromaterials, Solar System, and Planetary System Formation

9.16.21

XL-Calibur telescope to examine the most extreme objects in the universe: black holes and neutron stars

9.15.21

St. Louis Business Journal: How St. Louis went to Mars: Locally-based startup is creating optical sensors to explore deep space and the deep sea

9.10.21

Science Focus: Pluto should be our ninth planet. A planetary scientist explains why.

9.9.21

IMSE acquires new facility for fabricating nanomaterials

9.8.21

Scientific American: Success! Perseverance Mars rover finally collects its first rock core

9.5.21

Korotev selected for Meteoritical Society's 2022 Service Award

9.3.21

Welcome to WashU: Paul Byrne

9.2.21

Catalano awarded $2.25 million for investigation of critical elements

9.1.21

From the Himalayas to Mars

8.28.21

Space.com: Venus and a newly discovered comet will cross paths in December. Will sparks fly?

8.26.21

Salon: Mars' weird geology is making Perseverance's job more complicated

8.26.21

Science research roundup: August 2021

8.25.21

Kelton awarded $1.46 million to study nucleation in microgravity environment

8.24.21

Universe Today: Watch 14 hours of Enceladus geyser action

8.5.21

Searching for life in the cosmos

7.22.21

Experimental geochemist Krawczynski to examine role of water in volcanoes, Earth’s evolution

7.20.21

Muddied waters: Sinking organics alter seafloor records

7.15.21

UPI: NASA studies bigger, better Mars helicopter

7.7.21

Sculpted by starlight: A meteorite witness to the solar system’s birth

6.25.21

Rauch’s cosmic ray research probes origins of matter in the Milky Way

6.25.21

Analysis of pristine samples of the Moon

6.21.21

Buckley awarded $4.9 million to develop gamma ray astronomy mission

6.11.21

WU Rocketry Team wins several awards at 2021 NASA Student Launch

6.9.21

Physicist Nagy to lead next-gen balloon mission

6.1.21

Israel retiring

5.27.21

Piarulli receives early-career research award

5.24.21

Krawczynski and Nagy receive NASA funding

5.9.21

Randy Korotev and the Geochemistry of Moon Rocks

4.30.21

Michael Friedlander, 1928-2021

4.26.21

WU Rocketry Team celebrates successful launch

4.23.21

Skemer promoted to full professor

4.21.21

Lisalda honored by the Association of Women Faculty

4.15.21

Nowak, collaborators share new observations of famous black hole

4.12.21

Gillis-Davis promoted to research full professor

4.9.21

Highlands hunt for climate answers

4.8.21

New Fellowship is Funding Three Students for Summer Research

4.6.21

The Science of Fiction: Where in the galaxy will we mine lithium?

3.31.21

Jeff Gillis-Davis has pioneered a new method for laser space weathering

3.26.21

Nowak receives grant to study spectroscopy models

3.24.21

Celebrating women geoscientists

3.23.21

What’s in a name – on Mars?

3.9.21

Washington University to develop lunar resource utilization technology for NASA

3.9.21

Physicist Freese explores dark side of universe in McDonnell lecture

3.5.21

Gillis-Davis received NASA subaward

3.1.21

A rising star in physics

2.26.21

When using pyrite to understand Earth’s ocean and atmosphere: Think local, not global

2.25.21

Celebrating Black scientists

2.18.21

Pablo Sobron interviewed on St. Louis Public Radio

2.18.21

CNN interviews Ray Arvidson about Perseverance rover [video]

2.16.21

The Sirens of Mars: A book talk about searching for life on another world with alumna Sarah Stewart Johnson [video]

2.15.21

HEC: Dangerous landing of Perseverance Mars rover is a critical 7 minutes

2.12.21

Rita Parai investigates the origins of volatiles on planetary bodies

2.12.21

Open rank faculty position in geospatial Earth science

2.12.21

Amari receives Urey Award for career in cosmochemistry

1.27.21

Conference roundup: AGU 2020

1.20.21

Exploring the most explosive volcano in the world

1.8.21

NASA selects astrophysics mission to detect ultrahigh-energy neutrinos

1.5.21

Jim Mertens recently joined the Department of Physics

12.21.20

Leading missions and making policy

12.18.20

Gravitational waves probe exotic matter inside neutron stars

12.18.20

Nowak awarded a NASA grant

12.18.20

NASA grant awarded to Henric Krawczynski

12.18.20

Science finds a way: Research adaptations during the pandemic

12.16.20

WashU Expert: China probe returns with ‘treasure trove’ of moon rocks

12.10.20

Powerful electrical events quickly alter surface chemistry on Mars and other planetary bodies

12.9.20

McKinnon honored by American Geophysical Union

12.7.20

Society of Physics Students chapter wins national recognition

12.4.20

Glimpsing the unseeable physics of a black hole

12.3.20

Space News: Chang’e-5 successfully lands on moon to collect youngest lunar samples

12.2.20

Highlight of McDonnell Center Postdoc, Piers Koefoed

12.1.20

Field notes: Making it work

11.25.20

Obituary: Roger Phillips, professor emeritus in Arts & Sciences, 80

11.24.20

Erin Barillier receives Baines Family Planetary Science Scholarship

12.1.20

Catalano named mineralogical society fellow

11.19.20

Solving for nuclear structure in light nuclei

11.6.20

MCMS Undergraduate Research Symposium

11.3.20

Jeffrey Gillis-Davis won a NASA grant

10.30.20

Discover Magazine: Earth is pulsating every 26 seconds, and seismologists don't agree why

10.29.20

A conversation with two award-winning space scientists

10.21.20

Johanna Nagy joins Department of Physics

10.9.20

Research in Antarctica

10.7.20

A microscale search for cosmic answers

10.7.20

Nowak won a grant from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

10.7.20

Buckley received award from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

10.7.20

Probing the “equation of state” of neutron matter—the stuff that neutron stars are made of

10.7.20

Viking TV: Exploring Mars with Ray Arvidson

9.21.20

James Buckley elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

9.18.20

Mashable (Video): Explore Mars right from your home with this AR app

9.10.20

Introducing Ye Jin Han, Meruyert Iskakova, and Nicole Rodriguez - new grad fellows in Physics

9.10.20

Introducing Katie Billings and Sam Patzkowsky - new grad fellows in EPS

9.6.20

Looking skin deep at the growth of neutron stars

9.2.20

St. Louis Public Radio: Why St. Louis scientists have their eyes on Mars

9.1.20

Reach for the stars

8.28.20

Meteorite study suggests Earth may have always been wet

8.21.20

Lodders wins 2021 Leonard Medal

8.19.20

Alumni dedicate special journal issue to late professor

8.18.20

Nan Liu has been awarded the Nier Prize

8.6.20

Clocking volcanic activity

8.5.20

Jolliff awarded Shoemaker Distinguished Scientist Medal

8.5.20

Pastore awarded grant from DOE

7.30.20

NASA's most advanced rover heads to Mars

7.27.20

The hidden magnetic universe begins to come into view

7.24.20

2020 Newsletter

7.23.20

China prepares to launch orbiter, lander, rover to Mars

7.19.20

'We are all Martians!': Space explorers seek to solve the riddle of life on Mars

7.15.20

Countdown to Mars: Perseverance rover’s link to St. Louis

7.13.20

Looking to the future of the space sciences

7.10.20

SSERVI announces 2020 award winners

7.10.20

Countdown to Mars: three daring missions take aim at the red planet

6.28.20

An elemental problem with the sun

6.28.20

NASA’s new rover will collect martian rocks—and clues to planet’s ancient climate

6.17.20

Alum astronaut makes history

6.11.20

Electrically charged dust storms drive Martian chlorine cycle

6.9.20

Specks of stardust

6.4.20

Developing augmented reality course material for hybrid learning

5.5.20

NASA, SpaceX to launch astronauts, including Robert Behnken, physics alum, to space station

4.24.20

NASA, SpaceX to launch first astronauts to space station from U.S. since 2011

4.14.20

Sharing the mission

4.13.20

Hannah McCall selected for Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award

4.20.20

Graduate profile: Greg Ledingham

3.12.20

WashU planetary scientists chosen to work on pristine Apollo samples

3.10.20

VanBommel boosts STEM night attendance

3.2.20

New Horizons may have solved planet formation cold case

2.29.20

Physical Review Outstanding Referee

2.27.20

Wang wins 2020 Houtermans Award

2.21.20

Space samples suggest "new physics" in cause of violent solar flares

2.19.20

Welcome to WashU: Claire Masteller

2.17.20

"Not just a space potato": Nasa unveils "astonishing" details of most distant object ever visited

2.13.20

Arrokoth close-up reveals how planetary building blocks were constructed

2.10.20

Society of Physics Students (SPS) Distinguished Chapter

2.7.20

A super-rare 'Zee burst' in Antarctica could one day unlock a key mystery of ghostly neutrinos

2.7.20

Misbehaving kaons could hint at the existence of new particles

2.5.20

Curating a national treasure

1.31.20

NASA supporting two projects

1.31.20

Ultra-high energy events key to study of ghost particles

1.29.20

‘Curious and curiouser!’

1.28.20

NASA Grant Awarded to Nan Liu

1.16.20

Wash U Year in Review Video Features Professor Ryan Ogliore

1.10.20

SuperTIGER on its second prowl — 130,000 feet above Antarctica

12.18.19

Conference roundup: AGU 2019

12.16.19

WashU physicists launch cosmic ray telescope from Antarctica

12.12.19

Supersize me: Physicists awarded $3.3M for XL-Calibur telescope

12.11.19

Why is the red planet red?

12.5.19

Dr. Gillis-Davis explains the science and exploration value of ice deposits at the Moon’s poles

12.3.19

Mars rover retrospective

12.2.19

Wash U Scientists Study Moon Ice To Help Astronauts Explore Solar System

11.27.19

Professor Kip Thorne's November 7 lecture is now available

11.18.19

Proposed Interstellar Mission Reaches for the Stars, One Generation at a Time

11.14.19

Scientists think there may be meteorites in this Missouri pasture

11.13.19

Investigating water ice, space weathering on the Moon

11.7.19

Public Lecture - Exploring the Warped Side of the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

10.31.19

Almost Forgotten Anniversaries in 2019

10.29.19

Kip Thorne explores the warped side of the universe

10.23.19

Arvidson and Mars Exploration Rover team recognized with National Space Club’s Distinguished Science Award

10.23.19

Space on Tap!

10.23.19

DOE Funds New Physics Research in Dark Matter

10.15.19

Climate scientist Konecky named Packard Fellow

9.27.19

Brian Rauch received a NASA grant

9.23.19

New Major in Astrophysics

9.19.19

Henric Krawczynski appointed Wayman Crow Professor

9.18.19

Konecky receives American Geophysical Union’s Nanne Weber Early Career Award

9.11.19

Nowak shares Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

8.21.19

Astrid Holzheid joins Washington University as Clark Way Harrison Visiting Professor

8.15.19

Tektites don’t come from the Moon, but they might help scientists understand how it formed

8.13.19

Alum Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx PI, leads team in selecting final four site candidates for asteroid sample return

8.9.19

Willem Dickhoff received an NSF grant

8.9.19

New finds for Mars rover, seven years after landing

8.9.19

Michael Nowak received a grant from the Smithsonian Institution

7.26.19

Research Professor Emeritus Randy Korotev offers advice on how to find a meteorite

7.19.19

Old rocks, new science: Why Apollo 11 samples are still as relevant as ever

7.18.19

WashU Expert: On Apollo legacy, and why we should return to the moon

7.15.19

Untouched Apollo samples to be analyzed for the first time by WashU researchers

7.12.19

Brad Jolliff describes the scientific legacy of the Apollo program

7.11.19

Astrid Holzheid, McDonnell Center Visiting Professor

7.11.19

Roger Bryant reflects on his graduate program at Wash U

7.11.19

McDonnell Center Graduate Fellow Scott Beeler Looks Back

7.1.19

We need a bigger bucket: Experimental geochemists push limits of water estimates in magma

6.7.19

Rita Parai awarded grant from US Department of Energy

5.28.19

Virtual reality comes to the classroom

3.15.19

Inhabited exoplanets topic of 2018 Walker Distinguished Lecture

2.27.19

Energy, environment focus of 2019 McDonnell lecture

2.18.19

Good-Bye to Mars Rover Opportunity

2.1.19

A Look At The Latest Scientific Research About The Moon In Light Of Lunar Eclipse

2.1.19

Winds fail to revive NASA’s Opportunity rover

1.29.19

Choosing the next frontier of planetary exploration

1.28.19

Arvidson discusses Mars Opportunity rover’s 15-year anniversary

1.25.19

The moon got rocked by a meteorite during this weekend's lunar eclipse

12.10.18

Opportunity, Curiosity and Mars 2020 Rover Updates

12.6.18

Fossett Laboratory for Virtual Planetary Exploration launches new augmented reality app

12.6.18

Professor Jeff Catalano New Chief Executive Editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

12.4.18

Olga Pravdivtseva received a NASA grant

11.7.18

Professor Arvidson: Mars Opportunity Rover in the Dust Storm

10.23.18

Electricity in Martian dust storms helps to form perchlorates

8.17.18

Anna Schonwald - The Apollo Missions, the Far Side of the Moon and Continued Studies from a Distance

4.23.18

Obituary: Christine Floss, research professor in physics, 56

3.15.18

Global warming focus of 2018 McDonnell lecture

10.26.17

Optical Atomic Clock and Applications

9.14.17

Special Delivery

7.17.17

Are You Ready for the SOLAR ECLIPSE Today?

4.18.17

Wiens installed as the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor

12.21.16

Ryan Ogliore

12.21.16

Kun Wang

12.21.16

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