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Early Earth as exoplanet: NASA highlights just-published UW Virtual Planetary...
When haze built up in the atmosphere of Archean Earth, billions of years ago, the young planet might have looked like this artist’s interpretation – a pale orange dot. A team of astronomers including...
View ArticleProxima b discoverer to join UW astrobiologists for May 3 lecture, discussion
The lead investigator of the research team that discovered Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet, will join University of Washington astrobiologists May 3 to discuss the planet’s potential for life...
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Less life: Limited phosphorus recycling suppressed early Earth’s biosphere
As Earth’s oxygen levels rose to near-modern levels over the last 800 million years, phosphorus levels also increased, according to modeling led by the UW’s Michael Kipp and others. Accordingly, Kipp...
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UW astrobiologist Victoria Meadows receives SETI Institute’s Frank Drake Award
Victoria Meadows, UW astrobiologist and professor of astronomy. Victoria Meadows, University of Washington professor of astronomy and leader of NASA’s UW-based Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL), has...
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Orbital variations can trigger ‘snowball’ states in habitable zones around...
A NASA artist’s impression of Earth as a frigid “‘snowball” planet. New research from the University of Washington indicates that aspects of an otherwise habitable-seeming exoplanet planet’s axial...
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UW part of NASA network coordinating search for life on exoplanets
An artist’s conception of what life could look like on the surface of a distant planet.NASA Researchers with the University of Washington-led Virtual Planetary Laboratory are central to a group of...
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Study brings new climate models of small star TRAPPIST 1’s seven intriguing...
The small, cool M dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its seven worlds. New research from the University of Washington speculates on possible climates of these worlds and how they may have evolved.NASA Not all...
View ArticleLooking for life: UW researchers, presentations abound at 2019 astrobiology...
What are ocean worlds like? Is life possible inside a planet? What might a faraway technological civilization look like from here? Which planets warrant closer study, and why? And above all: Are we...
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James Webb Space Telescope could begin learning about TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres...
New research from UW astronomers models how telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to study the planets of the intriguing TRAPPIST-1 system.NASA New research from astronomers...
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Introducing VPLanet: A virtual planet simulator for modeling distant worlds...
University of Washington astrobiologist Rory Barnes and co-authors have created VPLanet, a software package that simulates multiple aspects of planetary evolution across billions of years, with an eye...
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Earth’s cousins: Upcoming missions to look for ‘biosignatures’ in the...
Artist’s depiction of the TRAPPIST-1 star and its seven worlds.NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Scientists have discovered thousands of exoplanets, including dozens of terrestrial — or rocky — worlds...
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Purported phosphine on Venus more likely to be ordinary sulfur dioxide, new...
An image of Venus compiled using data from the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974.NASA/JPL-Caltech In September, a team led by astronomers in the United Kingdom announced that they had detected the...
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20 UW researchers elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021
A spring day on the University of Washington campus.Dennis Wise Twenty scientists and engineers at the University of Washington are among the 38 new members elected to the Washington State Academy of...
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