February 26, 2018
By Will Ferguson, College of Arts and Sciences
PULLMAN, Wash. – For the first time, researchers have seen life rebounding in the world’s driest desert, demonstrating that it could also be lurking in the soils of Mars.
Space Sciences
February 7, 2018
ººBy Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture
PULLMAN, Wash. – Engineers know how to design submarines on Earth, but building one gets a lot trickier when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit and the ocean is made of methane and ethane.
January 12, 2018
Nobel Prize-winning physicist William D. Phillips explores emerging scientific frontiers in a Jan. 16 visit to the Pullman campus.
November 16, 2017
The absence of lunar glare will boost the brightness of this year’s mid-November display, said astronomer Michael Allen of Washington State University’s department of physics and astronomy.
November 3, 2017
Join the Physics and Astronomy Club on Saturday, Nov. 4, for this popular, pre-game, gravity bound extravaganza.
October 25, 2017
PULLMAN, Wash. – Employers from space industry giants Blue Origin, Planetary Resources, Systima Technologies and Raytheon Company are visiting the WSU Pullman campus Wednesday-Thursday, Oct. 25-26, to recruit and teach students about careers in the space industry.
October 17, 2017
The three WSU scientists collaborated with other members of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration in multiple ways to make this unique discovery. One of them was to characterize the detectors in order to improve their sensitivity to these weak gravitational-wave signals.
October 11, 2017
Learn about scientific research in NASA and the private space industry from an experienced voice on Oct. 13.
August 7, 2017
By Will Ferguson, College of Arts and Sciences
PULLMAN, Wash. – Three billion years ago in a distant galaxy, two massive black holes slammed together, merged into one and sent space–time vibrations, known as gravitational waves, shooting out into the universe.
August 1, 2017
By Linda Weiford, WSU News
PULLMAN, Wash. – Parts of Washington state will be treated to an extraordinary show during what NASA is calling the “Great American Eclipse” on Aug. 21, even though the sun won’t completely disappear.