Congratulations to Marcela Ewert Sarmiento for graduating with UWAB’s first dual-title PhD in Oceanography & Astrobiology! Marcela successfully defended her…
Graduate student Aomawa Shields, along with a team of other UWAB researchers, has recently published research arguing that planets orbiting cooler…
UW Astronomer Rory Barnes, along with a team of international collaborators, have just announced their discovery of three potentially-habitable ‘super-Earth’…
Last week, NASA’s Kepler space telescope team announced the discovery of three “super-Earth” sized planets in the habitable zone
In the latest discovery from the Kepler Space Telescope, UW astronomer Eric Agol has identified Kepler-62f: an exoplanet in its…
Last month at the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Woodlands, Texas, UWAB graduate student Elena Amador won the Dwornik Award…
In his latest paper, recently featured in Astrobiology, UWAB’s Rory Barnes explores the evolution of hypothetical “Tidal Venuses”, tidally-heated terrestrial exoplanets…
Research by UWAB’s Rory Barnes has been featured as the cover story in the latest issue of Astrobiology! In the…
Graduate student David Smith’s work on microorganisms in the upper atmosphere was recently featured in the Editor’s Choice section of…
This past year has been exciting and productive one for the University of Washington’s astrobiology program.
While studies have previously discovered microbes living in the upper atmosphere, new research by UWAB graduate student David Smith aims…
This November 28-30, fourteen of our graduate students traveled to Pasadena, CA, to visit NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), as…
New research by UWAB student Eva Stüeken suggests that microbes might have been widespread on Earth’s surface around 2.75 billion years ago,…
Last month, UWAB graduate student Rika Anderson won the prize for Best Student Poster at the 14th International Symposium on…
The University of Washington’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory was one of five teams recently selected for membership in the NASA Astrobiology…
UWAB graduate student Tom Tobin and professor Peter Ward have discovered that there may have been two separate extinction events…
UWAB graduate student Ty Robinson successfully defended his dissertation “Simulating and Characterizing the Pale Blue Dot”, and graduates with our…
In advance of the upcoming transit of Venus, the UW Astrobiology Program and Astronomy Department will host two, back-to-back lectures…
The UW Astrobiology Program and the UW Astronomy Department are partnering to present an exciting collection of entertaining and educational…
“Alien Encounters”: Establishing a Career in Astrobiology is not always easy. But keeping one’s options open can lead to work…
In a much-anticipated paper in Nature, UWAB faculty (Prof. Roger Buick & David Catling) and alum (Sanjoy Som, PhD ’10)…
UWAB alum Mark Claire and former UWAB/Virtual Planetary Lab Postdoc Shawn Domagal-Goldman are co-authors on the Nature Geosciences paper, “A…
Alien planets might experience tidal forces powerful enough to remove all their water, leaving behind hot, dry worlds like Venus……
With the start of the 2011-2012 academic year, Prof. Victoria Meadows was named the new Director of the University of Washington Astrobiology (UWAB)