astronomy

University of Washington astronomers have published evidence of a possible planetary collision that could inform our understanding of how celestial objects like the moon form.

Washington U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell joined members of Congress in a live Q&A with NASA’s Artemis II astronauts heading to Earth after a record-breaking trip around the moon.

An excited crowd gathered at the Museum of Flight in Seattle to watch the NASA rocket blast off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center base on Wednesday.

Early images of the asteroid come from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. There's no chance of it hitting Earth, astronomers say; the huge asteroid is about 200 million miles away.

Among financial pressures facing universities, federal funding upheaval means there could be fewer spots available at graduate programs this cycle.

University of Washington scientists have worked for years to help bring the Vera C. Rubin Observatory online so it can begin mapping the night sky.

Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are visible to the naked eye in January and for part of February. Uranus and Neptune can only be spotted with binoculars and telescopes.

You may be inclined to see a ravioli, a walnut or an empanada, but it's tough to deny that Pan's distinctive ridge makes a tasty impression. The images were taken by the Cassini spacecraft Thursday.

Black holes aren't all doom and gloom. Some of these incredibly dense matter-suckers fling powerful jets of light and charged particles — the space version of a fireworks show.

As 2016 winds down, we take a moment to contemplate the billions of years that led to 2017 and the billions more yet to come.