Department of Astronomy

Step inside the Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal and you'll see a lot of hurried faces peeking at the ceiling. Emily Levesque, an astronomer at the UW, is quoted.

Gossip over potential detection of colliding neutron stars has astronomers in a tizzy. Peter Yoachim, a UW astronomer, is quoted. 

Buildings across campus and the city were "closed for science" during Monday's eclipse.

Bruce Balick, a professor emeritus from the Department of Astronomy, observed chickens during the eclipse.

Bruce Balick, UW professor emeritus of astronomy, shared a few thoughts that he’s written for the upcoming event.

UW astrophysicist is part of an expert panel about the eclipse.

Exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked -- according to new research by astronomer Rory Barnes of the University of Washington.

Half of the atoms making up everything around you are intergalactic interlopers. Jessica Werk, assistant professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted. 

It turns out that, if new estimates are right, half of the atoms in our galaxy could have been stolen from other galaxies. Jessica Werk, assistant professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.

In five years, a sky-scanning telescope in Chile will begin hunting the heavens for asteroids on a collision course with Earth, scientists at the UW work to spot them.

NASA may be closing down its grand plan to study a piece of an asteroid up close, but the researchers who focus on near-Earth objects aren’t turning their backs on asteroids.

If exoplanets around M dwarfs host life, it’s probably very different from that on Earth

Lupita Tovar never expected to go to a four-year college. Now she's a UW graduate pursuing a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics.

An unexpected rain of spiders led to a lovely Twitter geek-out between astronomers and arachnologists.