Physics and Astronomy Department
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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 |