News

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

2.10.25

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

2.5.25

Pioneering lunar scientist awarded emeritus status

1.9.25

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

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

11.25.24

What is the solar maximum?

11.21.24

What makes an exoplanet a sub-Neptune?

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

10.17.24

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

9.30.24

Using drone imagery to help the slow loris

9.24.24

WashU-led team launches space mission with quantum sensor technology

9.19.24

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

9.4.24

Field Notes: South Pacific

9.3.24

Deciphering the mysteries of planetary formation

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

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

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

7.22.24

From Apollo to Artemis: unlocking the Moon's secrets

7.19.24

Active volcanoes may be common on Venus

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

6.10.24

Venus UnXplained

6.5.24

Rivers of lava on Venus reveal a more volcanically active planet

6.4.24

Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is growing

5.29.24

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

Okawa selected for URA fellowship at Fermilab

5.8.24

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

5.6.24

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

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

4.24.24

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

4.18.24

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

4.11.24

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

4.11.24

Finding the Story in the Stones

4.8.24

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

3.29.24

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

3.29.24

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

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

3.18.24

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

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

2.8.24

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

1.30.24

SuperTIGER Rescue Rangers return to the ice

1.22.24

Searching for dark matter

1.22.24

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

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

12.13.23

ExoCup@WashU

12.11.23

Should we send humans to Venus?

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

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

11.3.23

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

Samples from asteroid Bennu contain the key ingredients of life

10.20.23

Graduate students recognized for research excellence

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

The story of Earth's atmosphere

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

9.22.23

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

9.14.23

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

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

8.23.23

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

Arvidson wins fourth public service award from NASA

7.11.23

Chen has joined the tenure track

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

5.3.23

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

3.22.23

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

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

Back to Antarctica with SPIDER

12.6.22

The solar system's strangest objects are unlocking its history

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

11.3.22

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

10.12.22

Venus balloon prototype aces test flights

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

9.14.22

Cosmochemist Wang to study samples from asteroid Bennu

9.14.22

Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics

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

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

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

6.30.22

New leadership for physics department

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

6.17.22

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

Science research roundup: May 2022

5.27.22

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

5.11.22

Asteroid samples offer insights into solar system evolution

4.25.22

Dev to study mysterious particles at Fermilab

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

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

The challenge of our century

2.16.22

Parai wins CAREER grant to study geochemistry of the deep Earth

2.9.22

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

2.4.22

Arvidson receives award from St. Louis Astronomical Society

1.25.22

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

1.20.22

Master Minds: Mission to Mars, Venus and the Moon

1.11.22

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

1.7.22

Scientists detect world’s lightest magnesium

1.7.22

MSN News: Scientists create never-before-seen isotope of magnesium

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

Sachiko Amari won a $973,810 award from NASA

12.8.21

Science research roundup: November and December 2021

12.8.21

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

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

Buckley earns grant for astronomical monitoring

11.10.21

Tread lightly: ‘Eggshell planets’ possible around other stars

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.

9.23.21

Science research roundup: September 2021

9.22.21

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

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.

9.21.21

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

9.10.21

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

9.3.21

Welcome to WashU: Paul Byrne

9.2.21

Catalano awarded $2.25 million for investigation of critical elements

8.28.21

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

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

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

6.9.21

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

4.23.21

Skemer promoted to full professor

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

4.6.21

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

3.24.21

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

2.26.21

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

2.18.21

Pablo Sobron interviewed on St. Louis Public Radio

2.18.21

CNN interviews Ray Arvidson about Perseverance rover [video]

2.12.21

Rita Parai investigates the origins of volatiles on planetary bodies

2.12.21

Amari receives Urey Award for career in cosmochemistry

1.27.21

Conference roundup: AGU 2020

1.5.21

Jim Mertens recently joined the Department of Physics

12.18.20

NASA grant awarded to Henric Krawczynski

12.18.20

Nowak awarded a NASA grant

12.18.20

Gravitational waves probe exotic matter inside neutron stars

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

12.4.20

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

12.1.20

Catalano named mineralogical society fellow

11.19.20

Solving for nuclear structure in light nuclei

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 women in space science

10.21.20

Johanna Nagy joins Department of Physics

8.21.20

Lodders wins 2021 Leonard Medal

8.5.20

Jolliff awarded Shoemaker Distinguished Scientist Medal

7.13.20

Looking to the future of the space sciences

2.19.20

Welcome to WashU: Claire Masteller

12.5.19

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

11.13.19

Investigating water ice, space weathering on the Moon

10.31.19

Almost Forgotten Anniversaries in 2019

10.29.19

Kip Thorne explores the warped side of the universe

10.15.19

Climate scientist Konecky named Packard Fellow

9.18.19

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

8.9.19

Willem Dickhoff received an NSF grant

7.12.19

Brad Jolliff describes the scientific legacy of the Apollo program

7.11.19

Astrid Holzheid, McDonnell Center Visiting Professor

12.6.18

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

10.23.18

Electricity in Martian dust storms helps to form perchlorates

4.23.18

Obituary: Christine Floss, research professor in physics, 56

9.14.17

Special Delivery

4.18.17

Wiens installed as the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor