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'Fishing expedition' leads Pitt astrophysicist to discover smallest known black hole

Three years ago, Carles Badenes and his fellow astrophysicist Todd Thompson were at a conference where researchers were invited to put together impromptu proposals — pitched and awarded in the same weekend — in hopes of getting a small amount of seed funding to pursue a “crazy idea.”

But…

2019-11-04
Seattle-Based First Mode Teams With NASA to Design Next-Gen Rover for a New Lunar Mission

In a related development, earlier this month First Mode and Western Washington University announced they had…

2019-10-29
Max Knittel to retire after 44 years at Western 2019-10-24
First Mode and Western Washington Univ. win NASA’s nod to make Mars geology tool

Seattle’s First Mode team and Western Washington University say they’ve won a NASA contract to advance the technology for sizing up rocks on Mars.

The project, funded under NASA’s Solar System…

2019-10-04
Gaia’s findings on travelling stars

WWU's Marina Kounkel used data from Gaia’s second release to trace the structure and star formation activity of a large patch of space surrounding the solar system, and to explore how this changed over time. This data release, provided in April 2018, lists the motions and positions of over…

2019-09-19
Meet the 2018-19 Outstanding Graduates from the College of Science and Engineering 2019-07-23
WWU's Melissa Rice to Speak May 28 about Mapping Mars 2019-05-14
WWU's Melissa Rice to Speak May 28 about Mapping Mars 2019-05-14
WWU Mars Researchers Look Through Curiosity’s Eyes to Analyze the Red Planet's Ancient Geology 2019-05-03
Between a Rock and a Hard Plate: How to Save Your Metamorphic Sole 2019-04-26
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