Recent work by UWAB faculty member, and member of the Virtual Planetary Laboratory research group, Eric Agol has been highlighted…
A new study led by UWAB alum Sanjoy Som together with UWAB professors Roger Buick and David Catling and others…
UWAB astronomers Rory Barnes, Victoria Meadows, and research assistant Nicole Evans have co-authored a paper on how to prioritize targets…
UWAB graduate student Edward Schwieterman, professor Victoria Meadows, and researchers Tyler Robinson, Amit Misra, and Shawn Domagal-Goldman have demonstrated that…
UW Astrobiology graduate students Amit Misra, Josh Krissansen-Totton, Matt Koehler and Steve Sholes have collaborated on an interdisciplinary paper on…
An extended article in The Atlantic explores the current state of exoplanet research, and highlights the role of UWAB’s affiliated Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL) in the search for Earth-like planets—featuring commentary by UWAB director Victoria Meadows and Prof. Rory Barnes.
UWAB alumnus Tyler Robinson and team have discovered that we can learn more about exoplanet atmospheres by observing sunsets on…
UWAB researcher Rory Barnes, alumnus John Armstrong, and collaborators have determined that a fluctuating tilt in a planet’s orbit does…
UWAB faculty member David Catling (ESS) was recently interviewed for an article in UW Today, about his new book “Astrobiology:…
UWAB researchers Tyler Robinson and David Catling have just published research in Nature Geoscience that reveals the reason for the…
While the evidence for liquid water on early Mars is well established, researchers have been hard-pressed to explain how this…
Next week (Sep. 8-12), our students will be traveling to Montana for UWAB’s annual workshop, where they will learn about…
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’…
In the latest discovery from the Kepler Space Telescope, UW astronomer Eric Agol has identified Kepler-62f: an exoplanet in its…
Graduate student David Smith’s work on microorganisms in the upper atmosphere was recently featured in the Editor’s Choice section of…
While studies have previously discovered microbes living in the upper atmosphere, new research by UWAB graduate student David Smith aims…
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…
UWAB graduate student Tom Tobin and professor Peter Ward have discovered that there may have been two separate extinction events…
“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……