Perseverance Rover hunts rare earth elements on Mars
WashU-led study of trace elements could help guide the quest for signs of life on the Red Planet.
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Bridges to the Moon
What is the solar maximum?
What makes an exoplanet a sub-Neptune?
A high-tech way to track an age-old problem
Fire & Ice
NASA mission will determine if a moon of Jupiter can sustain life
Solar System: volcano worlds
WashU professor talks about New Madrid seismic zone
NASA balloons study atmosphere and cosmos
EEPS Research Roundup: 2023 - 2024
Europa Clipper launch was 'mind-bogglingly intense' says Wash U Professor
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launches
Europa is an icy ocean world—and NASA is finally going to explore it
Using drone imagery to help the slow loris
WashU-led team launches space mission with quantum sensor technology
NASA’s Europa Clipper prepares for launch
Recognizing outstanding faculty and staff
A giant hole in Siberia is visible from space and growing rapidly. It might reveal hints about our planet's future
Field Notes: South Pacific
Deciphering the mysteries of planetary formation
Can We Burn Uranus? Dead Planets Society Podcast
Is Mercury retrograde messing with you? Think again.
Shooting for the Moon
Perseid meteor shower hits its peak
Ancient grains of dust from space can be found on Earth − and provide clues about the life cycle of stars
Chang'e 6 brought rocks from the far side of the Moon back to Earth − a planetary scientist explains what this sample could hold
WRANGL3R: Rover-mounted drill sensor for water resource survey on the Moon
Best minds in space exploration converge on St. Louis as Washington University helps fuel Artemis 3 moon mission
From Apollo to Artemis: unlocking the Moon's secrets
Active volcanoes may be common on Venus
Balloon mission measures X-rays en route from Arctic Sweden to northern Canada
XL-Calibur telescope launched to study black holes
Moon ‘swirls’ could be magnetized by unseen magmas
Surprising phosphate finding in asteroid sample
China Makes History with First-Ever Samples from the Moon’s Far Side
Scorching temperatures persist as heat wave expands, with record-breaking temperatures expected across U.S.
Nowak named Associate Director of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences
What does a meteorite taste like? Someone found out and bottled it.
Breaking the cold barrier: searching for the nature of dark matter with new dilution refrigerator
Uncovering new worlds with Professor Tansu Daylan
Venus UnXplained
Rivers of lava on Venus reveal a more volcanically active planet
Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is growing
WashU theorists help advance nuclear physics research at DOE facility
Venus Might Still Have Active Volcanoes, as Recent Lava Flows Suggest ‘Ongoing’ Eruptions
XL-Calibur telescope set for balloon flight from Arctic Circle
Peering into Pluto's ocean
Okawa selected for URA fellowship at Fermilab
China's Chang'e-6 launches successfully — what happens next?
Mars may have been more Earth-like than we thought, discovery of oxygen-rich rocks reveals
Astronomers share climate-friendly meeting solutions
Saturn’s moon Mimas may be hiding a vast global ocean under its ice
Our picture of habitability on Europa, a top contender for hosting life, is changing
Antarctic ice shelf the size of France suddenly JUMPS twice a day - and scientists warn it could trigger a devastating icequake
Venus Exploration Remains Key To Understanding Exo-Earths, Says Paper
TGI-funded Project Uses Geospatial Tech to Study Permafrost, Plants, and Wildfire
WashU alum leads a recently deployed NASA mission to detect gamma-rays from cosmic explosions
Celebrating faculty retirements
NASA’s Artemis astronauts will help grow crops on the Moon—and much more
Our Galaxy’s biggest black hole just got a new close-up
Unlocking the secrets of the Universe
WashU to manage data for instrument on Artemis moon mission
WashU Expert: Tremor a reminder that East Coast, Midwest earthquake threat is real
Finding the Story in the Stones
What will St. Louis see during Monday’s solar eclipse?
Does Jupiter’s moon Europa have a habitable ocean, or not?
Masteller wins NSF CAREER award
St. Louis scientists nab $3 million to further moon exploration research
Largest ice shelf in Antarctica lurches forward once or twice each day
Pacific rock samples offer a glimpse of an active Earth 2.5 billion years ago
NASA grant helps WashU scientists develop tech for lunar research
Cosmochemistry: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?
Dr. Daylan teaches how exoplanets are discovered and characterized
Piarulli promoted with tenure
Roger Michaelides wins NASA fellowship for early-career researchers
Krawczynski installed as Wilfred R. and Ann Lee Konneker Distinguished Professor of Physics
With NASA support, device for future lunar mission being developed at WashU
NASA and Russian satellites just miss in ‘too close for comfort’ pass
Finding new physics in debris from colliding neutron stars
Parai and Byrne granted tenure
The “Nested Doll” Nucleus Nitrogen-9 Stretches the Definition of a Nucleus to the Limit
Dr. Ferrer explains the eclipse that made Einstein famous
Still need eclipse plans? You can see it from the sky on this Southwest flight
Master Minds Podcast interviews Professor Mark Alford
Saturday Scholars
Paper selected for the MAS Macres Award
The ties that bind
How solar eclipses have shaped civilizations throughout history
Paul Byrne elected to the 2024 class of The Explorer's Club
SuperTIGER Rescue Rangers return to the ice
Searching for dark matter
Eighteen Years After Stardust Mission, the Solar System’s wild past becomes clearer
Scientists and space agencies are shooting for the Moon – 5 essential reads on modern lunar missions
Good turnout at the Graduate School and REU Fair
2023 was the second-warmest year on record in St. Louis. Here’s what that means
Samples from a Wild comet reveal a surprising past
ExoCup@WashU
Should we send humans to Venus?
Asteroid Bennu samples have arrived on campus for analysis
Preparing for a Leap
Rare Six-Planet Star System Discovered in Milky Way
Growers say droughts damaged real Christmas trees
Could 2023 be the hottest year on record? The outlook for climate tipping points and catastrophes
Can a private space mission pierce Venus's clouds?
Teraelectronvolt Astrophysics of Relativistic Jets
Trick-or-treating at Venus
Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures
Bradley Jolliff: “We’ll develop the surface science plan for the Artemis III mission“
Strong evidence found for new light isotope of nitrogen
New global topographic map unveils unique distortions on Enceladus
Asteroid analyses by WashU researchers featured on journal cover
Samples from asteroid Bennu contain the key ingredients of life
Graduate students recognized for research excellence
Exploring stellar hydrogen burning via muons and nuclei
NASA's Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid. Here's why
The story of Earth's atmosphere
Io is a Volcanic hellscape of fire and ice: Let's go explore it
in:SPACE Influencer Paul Byrne
Tyson observatory is WashU’s dark sky site
Is it possible to turn Venus from boiling hellscape to liveable world?
From Missouri to Mars: WashU alum engineers career in space research
Chandrayaan-3’s measurements of sulfur open the doors for lunar science and exploration
Chen and Yuan win NSF grant to simulate pulsars at WashU
Flashes in Venus’ atmosphere might be meteors, not lightning
Physicist Yuan joins Simons collaboration on extreme electrodynamics
In 15 Years, We Might Put Messi On The Moon — But Should We?
Pacific Puzzles: How El Niño and La Niña Are Changing Their Dance
NASA selects geology team for the first crewed Artemis landing
Environmental Science: It’s a Summer of Record-Breaking Heat With More Dangerously Hot Summers Ahead From Global Warming
Professor Ray Arvidson granted Earth Science in United States Leader Award
Ogliore and Wang selected as members of the Mars Sample Return Measurement Definition Team
NASA partnership is 'a jewel in WashU's crown'
Jolliff selected for geology team for lunar landing mission
Study: Atmospheric circulation weakens following volcanic eruptions
Scientists find possible evidence of ancient giant volcano on the moon
Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics
Right now 2 nations are racing to the moon to land at the south pole
Is it possible to kill the sun?
The Source: McKinnon wins 2023 Kuiper Prize
Russia’s return to the Moon with Luna-25
4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters
Sohee Chun wins NASA FINESST grant
Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) science team
Granite likely lurks beneath the moon’s surface
XL-Calibur telescope to fly again in 2024
Scientists Have Found a Hot Spot on the Moon’s Far Side
Arvidson wins fourth public service award from NASA
Chen has joined the tenure track
Roving with Perseverance
Radar can help fight wildfires, identify flash-flood risks
Ogliore promoted with tenure
Is Earth the only planet with lightning?
Flooding and Erosion from Climate Change, Shifting Rivers and Changing Landscapes
Squeezing rocks for science
Professor William B. McKinnon elected to the National Academy of Sciences
TRIADS announces recipients of seed grant funding
Physicist Daylan selected for NASA open-science effort
Jolliff shares next steps in returning people to the Moon
Volcanoes on Venus … Wow! New map here
NASA’s Uranus Mission Is Running Out of Time
Scientists share ‘comprehensive’ map of volcanoes on Venus — all 85,000 of them
Michaelides wins seed grant to study interplay of permafrost, vegetation, and wildfire
Scientists Spot Recent Volcanic Activity on Venus
Venus is volcanically alive, stunning new find shows
Midwest Climate Summit allows student volunteers to learn from climate leaders
Everything you want to know about spy balloons, or any balloon, in the sky
Celebrating 170 years: an Apollo 17 connection
Study quantifies global impact of electricity in dust storms on Mars
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
Back to Antarctica with SPIDER
The solar system's strangest objects are unlocking its history
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
Geoscientists to study structure and properties of Antarctic lithosphere
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
NASA waited 50 years to unseal these precious moon rocks
NASA studies ‘new’ 50-year-old lunar sample to prep for return to Moon
March 2022 e-newsletter available now
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
The challenge of our century
Slow and not so steady: Glaciers, ice sheets, and sea level rise (video)
Arvidson receives award from St. Louis Astronomical Society
Rooted in St. Louis: ‘Dirt’ is a dirty word
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
Science research roundup: November and December 2021
Inverse: Chinese rover spots a "Moon cube," and opens a new lunar mystery
A river runs through it
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
Hands-on learning to help the planet
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.
Science research roundup: September 2021
Forbes: Martian blues: Did planet's size affect its ability to hold onto water?
$11.8 million award renews planetary geosciences data effort
NPR: Mars had liquid water on its surface. Here's why scientists think it vanished.
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
Analysis of pristine samples of the Moon
Rauch’s cosmic ray research probes origins of matter in the Milky Way
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 interviewed 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
Lodders wins 2021 Leonard Medal
Jolliff awarded Shoemaker Distinguished Scientist Medal
Looking to the future of the space sciences
Welcome to WashU: Claire Masteller
Dr. Gillis-Davis explains the science and exploration value of ice deposits at the Moon’s poles
The path to the Packard: Bronwen Konecky pushes the envelope in climate research
Investigating water ice, space weathering on the Moon
Almost Forgotten Anniversaries in 2019
Kip Thorne explores the warped side of the universe
Climate scientist Konecky named Packard Fellow
Konecky receives American Geophysical Union’s Nanne Weber Early Career Award
Willem Dickhoff received an NSF grant
Brad Jolliff describes the scientific legacy of the Apollo program
Astrid Holzheid, McDonnell Center Visiting Professor
Professor Jeff Catalano New Chief Executive Editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Electricity in Martian dust storms helps to form perchlorates
Obituary: Christine Floss, research professor in physics, 56
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Wiens installed as the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor
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