NEWS
The Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life Enters a New Frontier
April 24, 2026 | Nadia Drake, The Wall Street Journal
Scientists are using advanced telescopes, models and AI to help them look for signs of life beyond Earth, including in distant solar systems
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2026 Cohort Selected for RCSA Fellows Initiative
April 8, 2026 | DiRAC News
Congratulation to Aritra Ghosh, DiRAC Postdoctoral fellow, on being selected by Research Corporation for Science Advancement in a new cohort of 12 outstanding postdoctoral scholars in the third year of the RCSA Fellows initiative, a multiyear program to advance faculty excellence in the physical sciences in the United States and Canada by supporting early career researchers as they prepare to apply to, interview […]
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Early data from Rubin Observatory reveals over 11,000 new asteroids
April 2, 2026 | UW News
Using preliminary data from the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, scientists led by Prof. Mario Jurić and the Rubin solar system team at the University of Washington have discovered over 11,000 new asteroids in our solar system. The findings include hundreds of distant worlds beyond Neptune as well as 33 previously unknown […]
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Rubin Observatory launches real-time monitoring of the sky with thousands of alerts
February 25, 2026 | UW News
On Feb. 24, astronomers’ computers around the world lit up with a deluge of cosmic notifications — 800,000 alerts about new asteroids in our solar system, exploding stars across the galaxy and other noteworthy changes in the night sky.
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