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If alien life is found, how should scientists break the news?
(April 15, 2024)
Q&A: Eclipses arenât just good for jaw-dropping views â theyâre also opportunities for stellar science, says UW astronomer
(April 4, 2024)
SETI searches for alien signals synchronized with supernova 1987A
(February 15, 2024)
Is there a ninth planet out there? We may soon find out
(January 9, 2024)
NASA boosts deep-space interferometer and other far-out ideas
(January 5, 2024)
"Like Google for the sky": Vera Rubin Observatory will map the universe with more detail than ever
(October 23, 2023)
Group seeks to understand how a new type of satellite will impact Earth-based astronomy
(October 2, 2023)
UW selected as host institution for Brinson Prize and 51-Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowships
(September 15, 2023)
Harvard professor Avi Loeb says he found interstellar objects in the deep sea -- others are skeptical
(September 3, 2023)
Introducing the 2023 Summer Student Research Prize Winners
(August 11, 2023)
New algorithm hunting for dangerous asteroids spots its first one during test
(August 2, 2023)
'Potentially hazardous' 600-foot asteroid detected near Earth after a year of hiding in plain sight
(August 2, 2023)
Scientists test algorithm that spots potentially hazardous asteroids
(July 31, 2023)
New algorithm ensnares its first ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid
(July 31, 2023)
New algorithm ensnares its first ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid
(July 30, 2023)
A nearby supernova could be our chance to hear from aliens
(June 12, 2023)
Secrets of the stars
(May 29, 2023)
A Recap: American Astronomical Society 241st Meeting in Seattle
(March 15, 2023)
How did the Butterfly Nebula get its wings? It’s complicated
(February 14, 2023)
AAS Names Recipients of 2023 Awards & Prizes
(February 2, 2023)
How did the Butterfly Nebula get its wings? It’s complicated
(January 11, 2023)
Unusually brightening star captures attention as a stellar oddity
(January 10, 2023)
Old and new stars paint very different pictures of the Triangulum galaxy
(January 10, 2023)
The seven-year photobomb: Distant star’s dimming was likely a ‘dusty’ companion getting in the way, astronomers say
(January 9, 2023)
From Artemis to Webb, take a look back - and a look ahead - at the year's top trends in aerospace
(January 2, 2023)
The military is about to launch a constellation
(January 2, 2023)
JWST shows how several stars "stirred up" the Southern Ring Nebula
(December 8, 2022)
Big Data in the Night Sky
(December 1, 2022)
Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy
(November 7, 2022)
Satellite constellations are an existential threat for astronomy
(November 6, 2022)
Meteor lights up night sky in Pacific Northwest
(October 13, 2022)
Lots of junk is floating in outer space. How can we clean it up?
(September 21, 2022)
Some dying stars could have hidden conspirators shaping their afterlife
(August 28, 2022)
Biden and NASA unveil James Webb Space Telescope's first image
(July 11, 2022)
William Herschel is famous for science ? what about his music?
(June 26, 2022)
How 'Big Data' could help SETI scientists focus the search for aliens
(June 22, 2022)
Planet Nine: The answer to this cosmic mystery may come sooner than you think
(June 16, 2022)
Saving Earth from killer asteroids
(June 2, 2022)
The first privately funded killer asteroid spotter is here
(June 2, 2022)
New tool detects potential impact asteroids with help from the past
(May 31, 2022)
UW-developed, cloud-based astrodynamics platform to discover and track asteroids
(May 30, 2022)
Prof. Emily Levesque receives Guggenheim Fellowship
(April 14, 2022)
Superflares may be less harmful to exoplanets than previously thought, study shows
(August 11, 2021)
See the first photos from the Hubble telescope after a major computer malfunction
(July 29, 2021)
New high-precision measurements of TRAPPIST-1 planets
(January 22, 2021)
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