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Washington University scientists to probe space for origins of matter
Does This Mineral Indicate Oxygen on Mars?
2023 predictions from Mike Nowak
WashU Expert: 2023 will be the year of the battery
Formation of manganese oxides on early Mars
Spider launches from Antarctica
Science research roundup: November and December 2022
The solar system's strangest objects are unlocking its history
Back to Antarctica with SPIDER
Physicists awarded DOE supercomputing time for ‘high-impact’ projects
Physicist Errando helps NASA solve black hole jet mystery
Fall 2022 Earth and Planetary Sciences Alumni Newsletter
Artemis launch returns U.S. to the moon - Jolliff interview on PRI/The World
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Polarized X-rays reveal shape, orientation of extremely hot matter around black hole
Scientific ballooning is not for the faint of heart
Venus balloon prototype aces test flights
Science research roundup: September 2022
Fike installed as the Glassberg/Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor
Studying how climate change shapes floods and river landscapes
Cosmochemist Wang to study samples from asteroid Bennu
Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics
Washington University in St. Louis Celebrates Raymond E. Arvidson’s 50 Years of Mars Exploration
Space Station Experiment To Probe Origins of Elements
Exploring Mars, 50 years and counting
TIGERISS roars toward space station spot
WashU Expert: Artemis launch brings us closer to space exploration goals
Science research roundup: July and August 2022
NASA Has Plans to Probe Uranus
Earth’s Lower Mantle Is Drier Than Previously Thought
How balloons could one day detect quakes on Venus
Ogliore discusses Webb telescope images
Historic rainfall in St. Louis raises questions about flooding and climate change
NASA releases Webb telescope photos, deepest space photos in history
New leadership for physics department
Ancient micrometeoroids carried specks of stardust, water to asteroid 4 Vesta
Distance learning: Planetary scientist Paul Byrne explains why you should be impressed by the James Webb Space Telescope
Asteroid samples offer chance to study chemically pristine solar system materials
Science research roundup: May 2022
Shooting for the Moon! The next step is with Artemis Missions
Asteroid samples offer insights into solar system evolution
Dev to study mysterious particles at Fermilab
March 2022 e-newsletter available now
NASA waited 50 years to unseal these precious moon rocks
NASA studies ‘new’ 50-year-old lunar sample to prep for return to Moon
Arts & Sciences faculty win NSF CAREER Awards
Konecky launches new program to support diversity in the geosciences
Krawczynski promoted to associate professor
Pastore Promoted
WashU scientists help recover gases from Moon rock time capsule
Seismic study reveals key reason why Patagonia is rising as glaciers melt
Science research roundup: February 2022
UPI: Perseverance rover’s second year on Mars to focus on rock samples, river delta
Parai wins CAREER grant to study geochemistry of the deep Earth
Slow and not so steady: Glaciers, ice sheets, and sea level rise (video)
Rooted in St. Louis: ‘Dirt’ is a dirty word
Arvidson receives award from St. Louis Astronomical Society
BBC News: Paul Byrne on launch of James Webb Space Telescope (video)
Master Minds: Mission to Mars, Venus and the Moon
Volatile bodies: Isotopic fingerprints reveal how planets gain and lose elements
Scientists detect world’s lightest magnesium
MSN News: Scientists create never-before-seen isotope of magnesium
Vacuum-Sealed Container From 1972 Moon Landing Will Finally Be Opened
UPI: NASA's eventual farewell to tiny Mars helicopter could be emotional
Expanding the X-ray view of the universe
Sachiko Amari won a $973,810 award from NASA
Inverse: Chinese rover spots a "Moon cube," and opens a new lunar mystery
Science research roundup: November and December 2021
Space.com: Strange 'eggshell' exoplanets may have ultra-smooth surfaces
Nowak wins grants from NASA, Smithsonian observatory
Buckley earns grant for astronomical monitoring
Tread lightly: ‘Eggshell planets’ possible around other stars
Science research roundup: October 2021
National Geographic: Deepest earthquake ever detected struck 467 miles beneath Japan
Business Insider: China brought Moon samples from ancient volcanic eruptions
Forbes: ESA’s BepiColombo orbiters fire up instruments on first Mercury flyby
Stellar fossils in meteorites point to distant stars
Space.com: Moon rocks brought to Earth by Chinese mission fill key gaps in solar system history
Chang’e-5 samples reveal key age of moon rocks
National Geographic: Hellish Venus poses many mysteries. New spacecraft aim to solve them.
NPR: Mars had liquid water on its surface. Here's why scientists think it vanished.
$11.8 million award renews planetary geosciences data effort
Forbes: Martian blues: Did planet's size affect its ability to hold onto water?
Time: Mars was always destined to die
Mars habitability limited by its small size, isotope study suggests
Faculty Search: Assistant Professor in Astromaterials, Solar System, and Planetary System Formation
XL-Calibur telescope to examine the most extreme objects in the universe: black holes and neutron stars
Science Focus: Pluto should be our ninth planet. A planetary scientist explains why.
IMSE acquires new facility for fabricating nanomaterials
Scientific American: Success! Perseverance Mars rover finally collects its first rock core
Welcome to WashU: Paul Byrne
Catalano awarded $2.25 million for investigation of critical elements
Space.com: Venus and a newly discovered comet will cross paths in December. Will sparks fly?
Science research roundup: August 2021
Kelton awarded $1.46 million to study nucleation in microgravity environment
Universe Today: Watch 14 hours of Enceladus geyser action
Experimental geochemist Krawczynski to examine role of water in volcanoes, Earth’s evolution
Muddied waters: Sinking organics alter seafloor records
UPI: NASA studies bigger, better Mars helicopter
Sculpted by starlight: A meteorite witness to the solar system’s birth
Rauch’s cosmic ray research probes origins of matter in the Milky Way
Analysis of pristine samples of the Moon
Buckley awarded $4.9 million to develop gamma ray astronomy mission
Physicist Nagy to lead next-gen balloon mission
Israel retiring
Piarulli receives early-career research award
Krawczynski and Nagy receive NASA funding
Randy Korotev and the Geochemistry of Moon Rocks
Michael Friedlander, 1928-2021
Skemer promoted to full professor
Nowak, collaborators share new observations of famous black hole
Gillis-Davis promoted to research full professor
Highlands hunt for climate answers
The Science of Fiction: Where in the galaxy will we mine lithium?
Jeff Gillis-Davis has pioneered a new method for laser space weathering
Celebrating women geoscientists
What’s in a name – on Mars?
Washington University to develop lunar resource utilization technology for NASA
When using pyrite to understand Earth’s ocean and atmosphere: Think local, not global
Pablo Sobron on St. Louis Public Radio
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CNN interviews Ray Arvidson about Perseverance rover [video]
Rita Parai investigates the origins of volatiles on planetary bodies
Amari receives Urey Award for career in cosmochemistry
Conference roundup: AGU 2020
Jim Mertens recently joined the Department of Physics
NASA grant awarded to Henric Krawczynski
Nowak awarded a NASA grant
Gravitational waves probe exotic matter inside neutron stars
Science finds a way: Research adaptations during the pandemic
WashU Expert: China probe returns with ‘treasure trove’ of moon rocks
Powerful electrical events quickly alter surface chemistry on Mars and other planetary bodies
McKinnon honored by American Geophysical Union
Glimpsing the unseeable physics of a black hole
Space News: Chang’e-5 successfully lands on moon to collect youngest lunar samples
Highlight of McDonnell Center Postdoc, Piers Koefoed
Field notes: Making it work
Catalano named mineralogical society fellow
Solving for nuclear structure in light nuclei
Jeffrey Gillis-Davis won a NASA grant
Discover Magazine: Earth is pulsating every 26 seconds, and seismologists don't agree why
A conversation with two award-winning women in space science
Johanna Nagy joins Department of Physics
Looking to the future of the space sciences
Almost Forgotten Anniversaries in 2019
Kip Thorne explores the warped side of the universe
Willem Dickhoff received an NSF grant
Astrid Holzheid, McDonnell Center Visiting Professor
Electricity in Martian dust storms helps to form perchlorates
Obituary: Christine Floss, research professor in physics, 56
