Space Sciences

‘Strawberry moon’ will greet sky watchers across the Pacific Northwest Wednesday night.

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.

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. 

Nobel Prize-winning physicist William D. Phillips explores emerging scientific frontiers in a Jan. 16 visit to the Pullman campus.

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.

Join the Physics and Astronomy Club on Saturday, Nov. 4, for this popular, pre-game, gravity bound extravaganza.

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.

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.

Learn about scientific research in NASA and the private space industry from an experienced voice on Oct. 13.

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.